Ulick Burke (Fine Gael)

As an interim measure, will the Minister of State assure parents who have assessment reports prepared by professionally recognised persons in the private sector, lodged at present in the Department of Education Science — they may be in the dustbin at this stage — and awaiting recognition, for want of a better word, that these reports will be acted upon so delays will not cause children to lose out? It would be a gesture of goodwill, if nothing else, if the Department accepted that those assessments already submitted will at least be acknowledged and acted upon within the current framework.