Pádraig O'Sullivan (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This committee will be compiling a report at the end of its deliberations. I suggest to the Chair that we request that such research be done on this assistive technology and others and that the Department draft a policy on assistive technology and its merits, not just in this instance. There are other technologies there. Perhaps the committee could make such a suggestion in its report.

The second question follows on from that. I hate to relegate anything to a cost issue but for so much of what we request, cost is always an issue. I note the earlier debate. Do we have any idea of what this will cost per child? I hate to relegate it to that but I would like that information so we would have an idea of what it is. It is the cost of an iPad or a computer and the software that might go with it. What are we talking about? I hate to put it in those terms but I think it would be helpful.