Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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What I am saying is, specifically, on deaf children, if we are to learn whether we are on a par with other countries and if the people who came before us earlier today are to learn, it is not a big job to be able to evaluate and collate all that information. It would give confidence to children that, for example, 70% of the people are doing the leaving certificate. It is a fault of the Department of Education that we do not do that, specifically, in the case of deaf children, and maybe in the case of blind children as well. I would like the Department of Education to take that on board.

Another big issue that came across was the shortage of personnel providing sign language. How do we compare to our EU counterparts?