I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Education and Skills to come to the House to discuss the report by the Irish League of Credit Unions which shows a shocking rise in back-to-school costs as a result of cuts in the back-to-school allowance in 2011 and 2012. The cost of going back to school has since increased by almost €300 for primary school children and €500 for secondary school children. Schools could do more in that regard, particularly in the light of the survey's finding that the parents of eight out of ten children must make a "voluntary" contribution. That schools are doing enough is not true, but the Government must do more, as many parents are under pressure. Some 14% of parents do not go to a credit union for the money; they go to moneylenders. That is something we have to stop. It is the very reason John Hume set up the credit union in Derry and they were set up in Dublin in the light of the shocking number of people who were being driven further into poverty by having to resort to moneylenders to cover costs such as back-to-school costs. Will the Leader organise a debate on that specific issue because when it costs €1,500 to send a child back to school, it makes a mockery of the concept of free education.

The Leader might clarify the position on an issue we discussed yesterday, namely, the closure of emergency departments. He said the Minister for Health had not commissioned a report and that the report had not been presented to him. He mentioned that the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland was producing a report - that is correct - but that was a year ago. In a reply to our spokesperson on health in the Dáil on 10 November last year the then Minister for Health stated his Department, in consultation with the HSE, was developing a policy on trauma networks and that a steering group which he had appointed was in the process of developing it. That is not a report; it is a policy. There is a big difference. As I pointed out yesterday, reports were commissioned by government Departments in England for 20 years and not once did a report differ from government policy. The policy being developed which will result in the closing of the emergency department in Mullingar and eight others is a source of serious concern. Will the Leader to clarify the position for the House. At the conference of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association in October 2015 the then Minister stated, as regards policy on trauma services, that there was international evidence that there were many benefits in organising them on a national basis. He reiterated that he had set up a trauma services steering group. That is the report about which we are concerned as it refers to the closing down of emergency departments. Will the Leader to clarify his comments yesterday that the Minister had not commissioned a report?