Ms Áine Lawlor:

While they are still getting therapies, absolutely. Funding and resourcing only one section of that system is leading to an inequity and imbalance as people fight to get across the system. As the Deputy said, that comes back to the NCSE piece. If we put this resource into special schools only, that is a concern we had. It needs to move beyond special schools. We also have children with needs in our mainstream classrooms who require support and would benefit from support in that robust way, so it can meet their needs, so they can fulfil their potential and so it can transport them outside of that meeting their needs.