Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the expert witnesses for their attendance. Members have heard really good submissions from them. I really liked the answers given in the last section because they really got into the meat of the issue.

I have a question for Ms Lacey-Crowe and Ms Bradley who has touched on the issue. As an educationist, I am really interested in how they have their staff trained in the picture exchange communication system, PECS. Ms Lacey-Crowe then spoke about the delivery of speech therapy services, which is wonderful. We have never managed to do this in a primary school setting in which special needs assistants would provide that service or in which teachers would be trained by the therapists she mentioned. As this is something really new about which members have never heard, I am delighted to hear it. Am I correct in stating both public and private services are being delivered?