Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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I thank the Chairman. I just have a couple of quick questions on practical matters. How does the NCSE support dual enrolments between say, a national school and a special school and how does it track and monitor the effectiveness of that or is that something the NCSE does? How does it track the breakdown of placements or what I described earlier about this perceived managing-out of a student? What is the council's role in that and what communication does it have, say, in the example I gave earlier where the school is saying to the parent it does not think it has the resources or capacity to support their child next year? What is the council's role and when does it get notified? I ask the officials to describe that to me.

We have touched on the SNA and teacher training and what has been especially highlighted is psychological training and presence of psychologists to be able to support different behaviours so children have the opportunity to learn in a better way. Those three aspects are really important to me.