Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion

Ms Noreen O'Mahony:

The only concern I had was that the Minister of State referred to secondary care issues aside from primary care issues and said SNAs are there to assist schools. We are not there to assist schools. We are there to assist children with additional needs. They have to be kept front and centre in all of this.