Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

There is an indication of potential strike action. Time is of the essence to try to get that over the line. I encourage that in a positive vein. On therapies for schools, I was flicking through LinkedIn and saw that the New Zealand education system is looking for speech and language therapists and occupational therapists. It is funny that some of its advocates have Irish accents. They come from here and are working over there. It is welcome that there going to be therapies in our schools. I encourage that we work as possible to get them up and running. The Minister's initial ambition is to do this for special schools starting this September. There is the resourcing of that, with the money in the first instance, and the staff in the second instance because it is a competitive, not just national, but international environment.