Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I could not agree more with Dr. Travers. Until you stand in front of a class, you do not know what your experience is going to be or where you will need support. It should be ongoing. I was a teacher for many years. Under one of the pay agreements, teachers were expected to do X number of hours of CPD per year but the biggest issue was that people said they did or did not do it and, just like that, they could pick and choose what they did, whereas special education was one that everybody should have been made to do.