Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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One could say that about any therapist or teacher. With the reopening of schools, we wanted to ensure that we were in a position to replace an absence, and particularly around SNAs. The €14.7 million was there so if, for whatever reason, an SNA was absent then he or she would be immediately replaced. The same applied to educational psychologists and we got an additional 17 positions. We are recruiting with the school inclusion model now in order to kick that off for September 2021. Some of that was paused because of Covid. There is a suite of different therapeutic supports on offer if an educational psychologist is not available, but one should be available at all times.