Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Very good. The authority has had some discussion with the Chair regarding what is euphemistically referred to as special education unit spaces and classes. It has had a big role in respect of universal design, with the creation of guidelines and so on, and much of that work was laudable. Do the witnesses get a sense we have not moved beyond the guidelines and that, as a Government and as State agencies, we have not fully bought into it? In black and white terms, if true universal design existed, we probably would not need special classes and there would be totally inclusive education. Every building would be designed to suit everybody. Do the witnesses have any views on that?