Ms Ann Heelan:

------tackle these sacred cows, we are not really going to move. We are bringing people in and adding things on, including special education assistants, and special needs assistants, SNAs. We are putting in all these supports which may or may not be appropriate but we have never implemented the provisions of the Disability Act 2005 for an individual training plan. I know for a fact that many students in second level are getting inappropriate supports and lots of money is being spent which could have been used differently. We need to look at the centre and change what we regard as mainstream teaching and learning. We need to make the way people can move through the system much more flexible and not have such rigid assessment systems. Every learner is different but some of them have considerable baggage with which they must deal when coming into the system as people who are not the mainstream learners. We have to look at it deeply.