Marie Moloney (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the delegates and thank them for the presentations and for outlining the terms of the new model. The questions I was going to ask have already been asked, in particular by Senator Healy Eames. If there is no assessment and no diagnosis, is it for the principal of the school to decide who gets what resource teaching hours? Are we now putting the onus on the principal to make an assessment of the child's needs? I wonder how principals will react to that. As Senator Healy Eames has already stated, parent pressure is a big issue. Are parents now going to be blaming the principal of a school for allocating to Jack more resource teaching hours than Billy? How is that to be managed?