Ed Minister’s comments on SNAs insulting [finegael.org]
- Published: 25 February 2010
Fine Gael Seanad Spokesperson on Children & Youth Affairs, Senator Ciaran Cannon, today (Thursday) branded comments made by Education Minister, Batt O’Keeffe, last night in the Seanad as an exercise in shameful spinning and a gross insult to Special Needs Assistants (SNAs), teaching staff and the parents of children with special educational needs who are fighting to secure resources.
“The Education Minister’s comments last night that the presence of SNAs in a child’s life could be detrimental to that child as it might somehow ‘inhibit the child’s development’ are a disgraceful attempt to depict the cutting of 1,200 SNAs as something which is in the child’s best interest. This is a reprehensible act of political spinning which contravenes the experience of every teacher and parent who struggles to meet the requirements of children with special needs on a daily basis.
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