Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)

I support amendment No. 121. It is important and it links into the point I made about the need to specify the resources required. Deputies Crowe and McGrath propose that it should be specified that the child has received the services required when reviewing the plan. That links in with the issue of ensuring that while we set goals and decide that certain things need to be done, we need to ensure that they are done and that the schools are resourced to do them. If this amendment is accepted, it will be an important check-point to ensure that services specified in the plan have been provided.

In regard to the points made by Deputy Enright, we had a long discussion on Committee Stage on the importance of not attributing failure to a child but acknowledging that the system is failing the child rather than the child in any way being a failure. I recognise that the Minister has taken that point on board in his amendment No. 123. That points to the benefit of having a good Committee Stage debate on legislation.

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