Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

First of all, I did not say the schools had specific enrolment policies. What I said was that if one looks at figures for individual schools in a specific area, one can see where there has been a gravitation of special needs pupils towards them. That might mean that the parents of those children, recognising that a school is particularly good or has got a name of being good for these children, opt to send them there in the first place. I will be giving the details to the partners and can make them available then. However, I will not be highlighting the particular findings in towns such as, for example, Swords, Navan or Wexford because then it would be easy to identify the schools involved.

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