Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 November 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

That is an extraordinary ambition. It is the right ambition to have. That is why I asked the question about what questions people ask. There are a lot of companies, as the witnesses have demonstrated in their response to me, run by good, decent Irish people who just want to do the right thing and become more inclusive but, through lack of knowledge, naturally, just do not know how to do that. It is a matter of that structure around the supports at every stage and answering honest questions. We could have a read across with so many other aspects of policy in that regard. There is a comfortable space where one can ask honest or stupid questions, such as they are or whatever it the matter happens to be and resolve difficulties in an open and honest way. It is matter of organisations understanding that the approach the witnesses are taking is the one to take. That is why it is so useful to go through it in detail today. It provides an opportunity to bring more and more decent Irish people, companies, HR managers and so on into this space.

I thank the witnesses for their responses. I might come back to how to spread this. I appreciate I am out of time.

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