Keira Keogh (Mayo, Fine Gael)

It is a total shift in mindset. We have only a specific cohort of children getting individual education plans. I often found when I visited schools and wanted to help parents work on an individual education plan over the summer, I realised the plan was a document that sat on a shelf but what happened on the ground was very different. To get to that model would be phenomenal, especially when we know that some children might have dyslexia while others have ADHD or are autistic but there are a lot of children in between who will never get a referral to NEPS because the hours are so short. If everybody had a model of what they need in the classroom-----