Shane Curley (Fianna Fail)

I was a secondary schoolteacher for the guts of 12 years – 11 and a half years. On one particular occasion, a male student became very distressed. A female SNA was left traumatised with the efforts she had to make to try and comfort the child and look after him. We have a huge issue in the country with that imbalance whereby 94% of SNAs in the country are female. I will direct the question to both witnesses. What step do they think we need to take as the public representatives who are engaging with this to try and rebalance that?