Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 February 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters
Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion
Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
I want to ask a follow-up question. I tend to think of the likes of assisted technology as being like a hard support that is easy to track when it is implemented. Then there are soft supports like peer supports or assistants and I am particularly thinking of people with visual impairment who might need guidance around a campus, for example. Do we have the balance right in how we apply funding to those more trackable supports like assisted technology and then to the softer supports like peer support or assistants?
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