Ms Eithne Walsh:

Yes. They tend to be like that. We are talking about pedagogy. It is about teaching skills. With technology it is about what it can do, when it needs to be put in place, how we put it in place and how the SNA and the teacher work together to ensure that the child can open the digital books and not have the SNA doing it.

It is a matter of what is available to the child when moving on a year. What happens now is that when something goes wrong with the technology for the child and SNA, it is all a big palaver. However, there might not be anything wrong with the technology; it might be that nobody really knows how to access it and use it. Addressing this is missing in education and this needs to be done.