Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth
Recruitment and Retention of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion
2:00 am
Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
I will conclude my contribution by saying that if it is clearly recommended by an educational psychologist that a child should have an SNA, in my opinion - I was a teacher not an educational psychologist - the only person who can contradict that is another educational psychologist who can, maybe, professionally contradict or override someone else. Certainly in my opinion, a SENO cannot step in and override that or deny the child what has been clinically recommended for them.
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