Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

There are two reasons. The main reason was that we did not have all the information. The relevant people in the HSE are working on identifying what they call complex needs in children. This starts from when the children are quite young. That information will feed into what the schools need to have for those children when they come to school. That needs to feed into the new model in terms of what allocations different schools will get. Furthermore, it would have been too soon in terms of the change that it would represent for schools.

We did not consider there was enough time to implement it in 2015.

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