Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will tell the Minister of State what else we need. We have a new model for allocating resources to special needs children in mainstream schools and we will need additional special needs assistants. We have a cap on those assistants now. That cap has been lifted at times to increase the number of special needs assistants but that was only to meet increased demand for such assistants. There have been no additional hours given to any single child. With respect to resource teaching-----

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