Parents of children at Carrigaline Community Special School have contacted me in relation to the patronage of their school being an inhibitor to their children with a mild to severe intellectual disability having access to local children's disability network team, CDNT, service providers. They are being told that they are ineligible for home support and respite, for example. As the Taoiseach will be aware, a new special school has also now been designated for Carrigtwohill in east Cork. This is obviously most welcome but will the children due to attend that school this September face the same discrimination?

I thank Deputy O'Sullivan for asking this question. This day last week I met with Mr. Bernard Gloster and asked him that exact question. He has since confirmed to me that as of 1 May, the therapist will return to the school in Carrigaline and that issues experienced in the past in all of our four new schools will not be experienced into the future.