Many people have been affected by the Covid lockdown. We referred to some of them today. There is a cohort of young men and women with intellectual disabilities. There are a couple in my parish. One story about little Jack was shared on Facebook on Sunday. It is heart-rending. I welcome the July provision but this cohort of people does not have anything, even trips to their special schools on the bus with their carers. I salute everybody involved on boards of management, workers and teaching staff. Can the Government or the Minister with responsibility for disability do something for this cohort of people who are profoundly affected? They are incarcerated in their houses and need to be able to get out to interact with others who go to those special schools. They are severely impacted. We see self-harm and a significant regression of the progress that they have made in those special schools and with special tuition. They need support immediately. They have been incarcerated for too long and they are trapped.

I share the Deputy's distress and concern about this situation. I would like if he could forward to me the example of the schools or the cohort of students in question. This year's July provision has been expanded significantly compared with previous years, including school-based provision, home-based provision and the extension and expansion of DEIS schools.

Yesterday the Minister for Education and Skills got sanction from Cabinet to provide for post-primary children with Down's syndrome, who previously had been outside the scheme, to participate. We are anxious to respond to any cohort of children who for one reason or another, as the Deputy has articulated, do not have access to the July provision. I would appreciate if the Deputy could send me on the details.