Matt Shanahan (Waterford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Dempsey and I am sure everybody in this House will be watching this matter and trying to support Inclusion Ireland and the mainstream schools in it. Speaking of mainstream schools, they also mirror some of the challenges in special schools, such as the lack of sensory rooms, the lack of SNAs, SNAs acting like accountants by allocating hours to students in mainstream schools, the lack of a psychological assessment service, and only two assessments being offered on average to schools by the National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS. I recently raised these issues with the Minister for Health in this House. Is there any opportunity for Inclusion Ireland and for people who are trying to represent the mainstream area to come together and funnel all these challenges, which are largely the same, towards the Department?