The Authors
Joanne Banks is a research analyst and Selina McCoy is a senior research officer and joint
Education Programme Co-ordinator, at the Economic and Social Research Institute.
The study was commissioned and funded by the National Council for Special Education.
Acknowledgements
Growing Up in Ireland data have been funded by the Government of Ireland through
the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and have been collected under the
Statistics Act, 1993, of the Central Statistics Office. The project has been designed and
implemented by the joint ESRI-TCD Growing Up in Ireland study team. The authors are
very grateful to the GUI co-directors, James Williams and Sheila Greene, and to the rest
of the study team.