Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)

This is the type of sniping by which parents who have travelled to listen to this debate will be disgusted. We want and they deserve solutions. It is the job of Government to provide hope that solutions are on the way for their children.

I want to challenge the Minister on her suggestion that those who support ABA schools want ABA to the exclusion of all other types of education. That is nonsense; we and parents are not asking for it. We are asking for choice.

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