Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister of State. This legislation is very important and needs to be passed before the end of term. I fully support her decision to name schools. Words matter, but actions matter more, and when there is inaction, words need to be used to create action.However, actions matter more. When there is inaction, words need to be used to create action. As somebody who fell under the category of a young person who needed and would have benefitted from special education, I just wish back in the 1980s and 1990s there was a Minister with responsibility for special education in the first place, and one who would have had the courage of her or his convictions to actually name and call out the education institutions and universities I had to attend where there was precious little support. I wish there was a Minister then who actually named institutions and got results. Even in here I have had to threaten to bring things up on the floor of this House in order to get action. The Minister of State made the right decisions. I 100% support her. There are people upset, but at the end of the day, if she gets the result, which is to provide spaces for young people in schools near their homes, then it is a good day’s work.