Mr. Brendan Lennon:

We did meet with the Minister of State with responsibility for special education last November and we raised this issue directly. I think the Department's view at the time was that it did not do this kind of thing but it did not present any good reason for not doing it. The 33 visiting teachers in the country already have all this information. They receive the information from schools for the children on their caseload who do these SATs and they share that information with parents. It would, therefore, be a fairly simple exercise to put all those data into a spreadsheet.