Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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If I can interject, I will go back to the point that this recommendation was first put internally in 2009, the year that Sive was born. Sive is just one example of thousands of students. She has gone all through preschool, primary school and has likely had learning support. NEPS has been involved. There are copious reports and recommendations, and now she is quite close to finishing her formal schooling. How is it, in all that time, that the cogs of this system have failed to act on those key recommendations? How is it that the data set of those 36,000 students, with years of data being inputted - we all know there is such detail on students on systems that teachers log and feed up to Departments - cannot be critically analysed and the figures are not pulled out to decide who is eligible? How can that be the case?