Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 September 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism

Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Miriam Jennings:

It is by no means a solution but I would refer back to the case study we did on the students who took part in the summer programme. They were our future therapists. I am thinking of the experience they had there and the commitment they felt to those families. They are now signed up with those schools to come back on a locum basis. They have committed to the vision. Is that a way of retaining our therapists here in the schools and being our future supply? Supply is a huge issue. There are benefits to sorting out one thing and getting an additional benefit and flow through.