Page 94 of the programme for Government states the Government is committed to delivering education programmes to meet the needs of all students and all children in society. However, we have seen there are huge delays in respect of the delivery of ASD units and support hubs for primary and secondary schools. St. Brendan's Community School in my constituency received approval for an ASD unit four years ago but it still has not been delivered. There is huge concern over the issue. A solution may be to redeploy staff from other Departments to the school building section of the Department of Education to try to speed up delivery and all the rest of it. The staff are doing their best, but redeploying staff may be the solution.

I am not too sure that is the issue because we have had fairly rapid developments in special education in the past two and a half years. New schools have been established for the first time in over a decade. We have had two to three new special schools and new ASD units. The Department of Education was given the green light to spend a lot of capital moneys in the last year and it did. It went ahead of budget. There are ongoing talks in Government on trying to facilitate, especially in the area of special education, further provision of capital facilities. I am not au fait with the specifics of the school the Deputy has raised but we are determined the prioritisation of special education in terms of capital projects would continue this year.