Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism

Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Jennifer Carroll MacNeillJennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I respect that entirely but from our perspective, we are talking about services and supports for such children and this is the single biggest gap in all of our work so far. We talk about this as the greatest danger to children, namely, the regression they face. We are working through all the different issues but this is the single biggest gap. We are told that the biggest problem in relation to it is matching the teachers to the need. That it did not immediately jump out at the witnesses as the single most important question for us to be able to resolve is, of itself, concerning.

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