Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

If there is any way the Minister can develop this process and work with us and the committee secretariat would be welcome. Could it be said, if this discrete group of pupils improved their educational outcomes, that the improvement related also to SNAs, resource teachers or technology to help students with special needs?

Money is being spent by the Department. It is not that it is not connected to educational outcomes at all, it must be. I would not go along with the idea that there is no relationship. I understand exactly what an SNA is but it is not separate from the educational outcomes. Perhaps for future reference we could develop the information provided. This is very much what we would have got in the past.