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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes but that is still not enough because it is not being delivered. In addition to the 1,200, how many out of the 116,000 are needed and how will we deliver? I am over time and I am sure my colleagues also have interesting contributions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate the Teaching Council's role in registration but I am sure the witnesses can understand that, from our perspective, the committee is trying to get a particular body of work done and trying to piece everything together. Senator Wall and I were just discussing this. It appears from the witnesses' own figures that there are 119,000 people available to make a contribution towards...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Ms Fox talked about the proactive steps being taken to add to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Let us imagine we were having this conversation this time next year. Within the Teaching Council's particular remit, what more can it do within that body, with its access to teachers and its particular role and function? What more can it do to ensure a better July provision is delivered next year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: In practical terms, what would Ms Fox do? We have dialogue and communication. Ms Fox just said that has been done in the past. I am asking what we can do that is different in order to deliver a different outcome next year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I do not believe the witnesses present had the opportunity to see the previous session, meaning they are at something of a disadvantage. The committee is focused on the delivery of the July provision. We have listened to 15 minutes of various contributions and I agree with many of them. Not one representative in that 15-minute period mentioned the July provision or what teachers can do to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will have one other comment when Mr. Duffy is finished.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Which includes this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: May I ask Mr. Duffy for the detail on that? How many TUI teachers were engaged in it? How many teachers does Mr. Duffy believe need to be engaged on it, if the TUI has been in communication with them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: But the TUI engaged with its own-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I respect that entirely but from our perspective, we are talking about services and supports for such children and this is the single biggest gap in all of our work so far. We talk about this as the greatest danger to children, namely, the regression they face. We are working through all the different issues but this is the single biggest gap. We are told that the biggest problem in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is not just SNAs; teachers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will come back in. I agree with and accept what Ms Howard said. The number of classes, and I can see this in my constituency, has significantly expanded at secondary and primary level. There is more to go but it has expanded significantly. I have seen that since 2019. That is just a fact. I know the children who are in those classes. Ms Howard is quite right about planning and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is correct, but what is the dialogue about making teachers available? We have this difficulty whereby 116,000 teachers are on the register, an extra 3,500 teachers were made available, through emergency measures, by the Teaching Council last year, and more than 1,200 student teachers are in training. We are being told that teachers are not available to offer July provision. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Does Ms Howard mean financially attractive?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Specifically on value for money, I want to ask the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, about the planning permission notice that was put in the Irish Independenton 28 September by the Commissioners of Public Works to develop a science museum in Earlsfort Terrace, when there is a perfectly good Explorium in Sandyford that has been in receipt of PUP and EWSS but cannot reopen. It has had...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is entirely within the area of value for money, which the Minister has referenced.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Expenditure Policy (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is related.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget 2023 (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I, too, commend the Minister, Deputy McGrath, on that work. I have a question on the practicalities of the business supports, on which there is a state aid clarification yet to happen. For example, a business in my area, a retail vegetable deli store in my constituency, received a bill for €6,982 for the last 62 days. It had been €1,300 the previous year. He has to pay that...