Liam Fitzgerald (Fianna Fail)

Does the Leader agree that it is inaccurate and unfair to say that the Minister for Education and Science is ignoring inadequate special needs facilities in feeder second level schools, where such inadequacy exists? The situation is the reverse. The Minister stated publicly in recent times that, following visits to a number of schools, she is concerned that the enrolment policies in some schools appear to be insidious. Arising from her concern she has set up an audit of the enrolment policies of these feeder schools. I suggest to the Leader that when the audit is completed and the findings are available to the Minister it would be appropriate to request her to come to the House to debate the issue. We are all concerned about evidence of this nature. I am aware of such evidence in my area. By all means we should have a debate on this matter but we should wait until the audit is complete and the findings are available to the Minister.