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

Unfortunately, I missed the UCD conferring because I had Covid and I would have been there otherwise. They had five modules over ten months. There is going to be an intake of 3,500 over three years, which is incredible and it is at no cost, being funded by the Department. It is something the NCSE had given advice on in 2018 so that SNAs would receive this training, which is vital.

On the Senator’s point about working on different programmes, they will work and have worked on summer programmes and the Department also facilitated them on home-based programmes. Having this additional qualification would be of great assistance. I thank the Senator for her comments.