Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party)
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442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason children on the ASD spectrum are not provided with a special needs assistant in the early start programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23690/21]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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Early Start units attached to primary schools are staffed by teachers and child care workers, and the role of the child care workers is to meet the care needs of all the children in the unit, including those children with special educational needs.