Dr. Niall Muldoon:

I might add a point. I am aware that we have had discussions about school places as well. I understand that currently approximately €100,000 a day is spent on taxis in Dublin alone to bring children out of their own area to go to a special needs school. If there was proper planning and those children did not have to be transported, we would create a whole different energy and €500,000 a week would be saved. Forward-thinking and proper planning would make a significant difference to the lives of the children who are affected. School transport is probably the most obvious issue that regularly turns up. We can fix it by allowing ourselves to do things that are different for one family alone and say it is not a precedent and it cannot be copied somewhere else because the circumstances of the family are different. Let us allow ourselves to do that, as it would create a proper child-centred approach within the system.