Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael)

If the Senator listened for a while, he might learn something. The Government has taken away the support structures in schools. When I started out as a teacher, there were 30 students in a class but while I welcomed the attempt to make education all-inclusive with children with intellectual disabilities, Traveller children and children of visitors to our country being added to the mix, the Government then withdrew funding for special needs assistants, SNAs, Traveller education teachers and support for one-to-one education, which has led to failures in the education system.