Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do not have a brass neck with regard to disability issues. I stand over my record as Minister for Education and Minister for Health in introducing special needs assistants in schools, which was a radical departure for its time and has stood the test of time. I also introduced resource teachers and provided significant disability grants for people leaving second level schools and so forth.

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