Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

When places become available, the NCSE receives that information. For example, the NSCE will have information about primary schools in Dublin 15, that there is a demand for 12 places and that 15 places that are available. Of those 15 places - I will speak in general terms - let us say that ten, for example, could be already allocated within the school. Children in the school may need that special class. To answer the Deputy’s question, the NCSE needs to work through that in these particular schools to determine which of the places will be taken up by children who are already in the school and which of them are new places that can be allocated to some of those parents who are protesting outside.