Joe O'Reilly (Fine Gael)

I thank the Minister of State for his reply. The one hopeful aspect is in the third paragraph, which states that the Department officials will look at the case in hand. Children are coming in from a number of schools in the area. They have been considered in the normal allocation and the difficulty is that it is not a runner to have children aged seven and 14 in the one class. There is a very well developed special class in this school and it is the only such location in east Cavan. I again appeal to the Minister to look specifically at this case and at individual pupils. Those who have to go back to their own schools will not be able to manage in those environments. For that reason I ask the Minister and his officials to look seriously at that. I hope there is some ray of hope in that the Department officials will be in contact with the school.