Ms Julie Tonge:

Yes. I reiterate all the points the Cathaoirleach made about having flexibility in the systems and considering the cost of all disabilities for all those financial aids. What is missing now is that bit of flexibility. While that is very important, I do not think the answer is just to make the disability services bigger and better. There must be a UDL approach, a whole college approach, to supporting all students, including autistic students. We do this through embedding UDL, which we are trying to do now in UCD. The national access plan also supports UDL. It is a major feature of the most recent plan. That needs to continue and it must be a feature not just in third-level education but also in further education and schools. UDL principles need to be embedded and it must be everybody's job to include people with autism and other disabilities.