Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I return to the issue of school-based therapies. I welcome that this will be rolled out in special schools in September. I would like to think these will be holistic therapies. Some families are worried they will just be school-based and it is vital that teachers, SNAs and parents are all made aware of what best practice is. At times, even technological back-up is absolutely vital and should not be left out. When do we move to school-based therapies being rolled out properly in the context of mainstream? I spoke about the October CDNT workforce report which stated there were nearly 530 whole-time equivalent CDNT positions unfilled last October. When will this report be published? Even allowing for having a plan and those spaces being filled, I would like to think this report could lay out what the actual need is.

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