Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael)

This motion has stimulated much debate and I thank all Senators who contributed. My interest is the child. I have no other interest in this. I am not interested in making it a political issue but it is one because Government decisions are making or breaking children. The Government side has been extremely defensive in its behaviour. I would ask some of the Senators who threw many wild accusations my way why they do not attack the people who wrote the reports in the newspapers? I have not written the reports about the number of special needs assistants being cut by 1,200. However, when I contacted the National Council for Special Education, it told me that of 1,000 schools-----