226. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the National Council for Special Education's proposed document entitled Delivery for Students with Special Educational Needs: A better and more equitable way, her views on concerns that if professional diagnosis is eliminated then children will be at the mercy of school staff that often have inconsistent levels of experience and training; her further views that without professional diagnosis teachers will be guessing at the problem which hinders the remediation process; and if it is not the case that if the learning difficulty is identified early on by a qualified practitioner the teacher has a much better chance to remediate with proven teaching strategies that meet the particular learning need. [6478/15]

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226. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the National Council for Special Education's proposed document entitled Delivery for Students with Special Educational Needs: A better and more equitable way, her views on concerns that if professional diagnosis is eliminated then children will be at the mercy of school staff that often have inconsistent levels of experience and training; her further views that without professional diagnosis teachers will be guessing at the problem which hinders the remediation process; and if it is not the case that if the learning difficulty is identified early on by a qualified practitioner the teacher has a much better chance to remediate with proven teaching strategies that meet the particular learning need. [6478/15]

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