Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There is no stopgap. This is purely in relation to the educational component of the assessment of need, not the health component. The review in June and monthly monitoring will be important, as will engagement with the Department and NCSE.

There are supports available for schools. There is detailed AON guidance and a short video, and there are also email supports and a health line. If further supports are deemed necessary during the implementation phase and the monitoring of the process, the Department and NCSE must commit to providing them to individual schools. From the feedback we have received, the form takes only between 20 and 30 minutes to complete at primary level and maybe up to 60 minutes at post-primary level. All the feedback has been collated and included in the revised documents. We are confident they will work and that schools will embrace them.

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