Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 July 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Special Educational Needs Provision: National Council for Special Education and Health Service Executive

2:05 pm

Mr. Pat Healy:

All the stakeholders, providers, the school system and parents. There are examples of this in west Cork, which Deputy Daly spoke about, and in the mid-west. Each group ensures that it has engagement with parents who pick a representative. There are usually several parent representatives in the local implementation groups. Where it works well it seems to have a very beneficial impact. It overcomes the type of difficulties Deputy Griffin spoke about. That is why we are trying to develop it. Equally, it is a good feedback process. If we start to roll it out and it does not work as well as we thought it would, we can get feedback and respond. We want to make sure we do that right.

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