Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)

The National Council for Special Education, as it is obliged under the Act, submitted an implementation programme to the Minister on 1 October 2006. Is the Minister telling the House that this programme is not the Minister's programme? Is the Minister also telling the House that the various 50 proposals are not now to be implemented within the timescale? Will the Minister accept that her effective rejection of the advice from the national council leaves her open to the charge that no progress will be made in the implementation of the EPSEN Act to help young school children with special needs?

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