Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion

Photo of Mary Seery KearneyMary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael)
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SNAs have come through the education programme that the Minister of State launched and it has been exceptionally well received. They have had an affirmation of their very good practice and an enhancing of their practice, and, as I said, I saw graduation photographs from last week. I wonder is there a role for them in the expansion of the summer programme so they would have a competence that could support bringing children with special educational needs back up in terms of refreshing and supporting them where they may have been disadvantaged during Covid.