Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes. As I told Senator Dolan, the interim evaluation report that we received on the school inclusion model pilot was advantageous and showed that children had improved listening skills and competence and had reached most of their targets. We are now rolling out the model to additional community healthcare organisation, CHO, areas. We hope to do the entire nine CHOs over a period of approximately three years. It will be a revolutionary change and experience for children with special needs because they will have occupational therapists and access to speech and language therapists and behaviour and crisis practitioners. This will complement, rather than be in lieu of, the services that they obtain from the HSE. It will be exciting for children with special needs.