Mr. Paul Crone:

I do not think that there have been empirical studies. We would hear it on the ground in schools as we travel around the country and the issue would very much have been discussed in the review of delivering equality of opportunity in schools, DEIS, that was done over the past while. The Tusla educational support service, TESS, operates the system now. I do not think that there is empirical data but there is a lot of anecdotal evidence and information around that.