Ba mhaith liom ceist a chur ar an Aire Oideachais agus Scileanna agus níl sé ann. Mar sin, cuirfidh mé ar an Taoiseach í. As every child in the country should be entitled to a place in a school, what is the Government going to do about the many hundreds of children, including 156 children with special needs in Cork, who cannot secure a school place? What will be done to rectify the problem?

Every child in Ireland is entitled to a school place, although it may not be in the school of first choice.

Some cannot find any.

In some cases home tuition is provided as an alternative. The Minister has powers under section 8 of the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018, which deals with admissions to require schools to open new special classrooms.

They have only been used once.

He is not using those powers.

I am informed that he has just used them at a school in my constituency and that he may need to do so in some other places also. It would be preferable for schools to co-operate in providing special classes, but he now has the powers to compel them to do so. We must bear in mind that the issue is not straightforward and that a school must have space. There are other issues also.