Ms Mary McGrath:

The school inclusion model has been running in the CHO 7 in 75 schools and it was in 75 early years settings for the last three years. NCSE has a number of occupational therapists and speech and language therapists who are working on the ground with 75 schools, including, I believe, four special schools, although I might have that number slightly wrong. The early results we are seeing from that project are really quite transformative. The focus of the work of the speech and language therapists and the occupational therapists is building teacher capacity to have the right supports for the children in the school as and when they need them. Early evaluation, which was done by a team in University College Cork, has been very positive in terms of the outcomes.