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

The Minister of State has met the school principals. There was a meeting with them recently in Limerick. It depends on how long one goes back. The programme for progressing disability services has been going on for ten years. I raised it with the disability organisations seven or eight years ago. Not too many of them raised this with the HSE at the time. Those are the facts. However, the matter has to be dealt with now. I am certainly keen to deal with it to make sure we can help special schools in the first instance with multidisciplinary teams and the provision of therapists.

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