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:
Respect has to come from the top down. It has to start at the Department of Education and then it will flow down. The best classes I have worked in are the collaborative classes where people work together as part of a team. You see a problem and you come up with a solution. That is going on all across the country. As everyone is saying today, it is standardising that is needed, setting a bar and leaving it that high.