Mr. Alan Power:

I reiterate that in special schools, the therapists were there working with the teachers hand-in-hand and it was fantastic. One would have the speech and language therapist in the classroom. They would have children of all ages there and would be setting up buddy systems. The teacher was very well supported but it was deliberately broken under the progressing disability services for children and young people programme despite the fact that everybody was saying that this was working very well in these schools. We need to understand that kind of accountability and to know who is making such decisions in order that they do not make them again. If they continue to make these decisions, we will be back here next year and the year after.