Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The complex needs aspect takes into account the four cohorts. There are four years from junior infants right up to second class. It looks at the complex needs profile of those schools. That complex needs profile is delivered to the school. For that to be dramatically wrong, the cohort leaving the school must have dramatically lower special education needs than the cohort joining the school. If the school can demonstrate that the situation is that the new intake is dramatically different from the children who have moved on into third class and into another school, then that is the material that the NCSE would look at, and it would work with the school to resolve the situation. We need to see the actual enrolment. That would have to be evaluated exactly, based on the children concerned.

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