Mark Wall (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I have a lead-on question from there. The Chair has brought us around a number of special schools and one of the big issues was autistic person-specific training. Ms Fox has said it is dependent on the training teacher coming back and asking for that. Should there be autistic person-specific training, given the complexities many families and students have? Is that something the Teaching Council will consider? It seems to be a growing concern for parents and Deputy Tully also mentioned the concerns that parents face with students in special classes versus students going into mainstream education. Is the Teaching Council looking at that? I hate to go back to this again but the committee needs to know about autistic person-specific training. Is that something the Teaching Council is considering, outside of the asks by its representatives and members?