Deputy Jim Higgins has informed me that there are four classrooms in which the equipment is in need of repair. We are assured that the allocation of £14,000 will be sufficient to cover two classrooms. Therefore, it will clearly be seen that this year we shall be improving the equipment in an additional two classrooms. I would suggest that it is a slight over-exaggeration to suggest that a school for the deaf is operating obsolete equipment. Deputy Higgins, I am sure, will be pleased to learn that I spent some of my teaching years with the deaf. To shout at children who are deaf, while it may be the manner in which we communicate in this House, is not good practice in communication skills. In addition to the amount of money being available to this school I might add that 40 per cent of the money allocated for special education aids is given to hearing-impaired children's schools. Of course, some hearing-impaired children are catered for in that Cabra complex but there are also St. Joseph's and other schools. Some £30,000 have been allocated to Cabra, divided between the schools there, and there is a deaf unit in Ennis which is funded. Another interesting point — since we have been alerted to the need to ascertain whether we should plan for the forthcoming 30 years in order to ensure that equipment now being installed will not be obsolete then — is that £40,000 is spent on radio aids, a new procedural departure, which allows certain categories of deaf children to participate within a hearing classroom-type forum, when both children and teacher wear aids. Furthermore, 40 of those aids have been made available, resulting in a reduction in enrolment in deaf schools, something that is under review. I might remind Members that, while the equipment certainly is not modern, it needs to be minded and maintained to ensure that the children using it benefit therefrom. For instance, £40,000 was made available to the National Rehabilitation Board who send a person out to schools to maintain the equipment. I can assure Deputy Higgins that that person actually attends St. Mary's two days every week.