Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We want more therapy posts. I want more of them. That is why I made sure of the 44 permanent posts. I am working with the Department of higher education and my colleague the Minister, Deputy O'Donovan, on increasing the supply of therapists coming through. Our new therapy service will facilitate placements in schools. We have seen this as part of the summer programme where student teachers can come in. It is the same thing for therapists. They can come in and be paid as part of it. It is a problem and we need to make sure we are training more therapists as there is a supply problem. We also need to have them working in schools. This is part of the school inclusion model we are putting in place.