Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

I ask the Deputy to listen. Three cases were resolved at facilitation and eight were resolved locally. Twenty-two appeals were withdrawn and 25 went to a hearing and were not upheld. Many of them were sorted out at local level.

The Deputy is correct that the second school which does not admit the child is the school that suffers under section 29 of the Act. This is all the more reason the parent in the first instance when their child has been turned down by a school needs to take the section 29 appeal against that school and not the one which is already very inclusive and does not take the child.

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