Niall Ó Brolcháin (Green Party)

I support calls for a debate on special needs education. The sooner we have this essential debate the better. I refer specifically to Senator O'Toole's comments on the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act which is addressed in the programme for Government. Progress is required on the recruitment of speech and occupational therapists. I am also in favour of moving towards taking a rights based approach to special education needs. A rights based approach to education in general would fit in well with the Constitution and what was originally-----