Mr. Brendan Lennon:

The Department for Education in the UK publishes this kind of information. It publishes outcomes on state examinations. More importantly, it publishes outcomes for standardised assessment tests, SATs, which are conducted much earlier in the educational journey in the UK. In Ireland, we have so-called SATs in second, fourth and sixth class, as I understand it. If we knew how deaf and hard-of-hearing children were doing compared with their hearing peers of similar ability at that stage, and if we were to have SATs annually, we would be able to see what the gap is and, over time, would be able to see, if we were doing new things, whether that gap was narrowing.