An SNA has called on the government to provide more special needs assistants with permanent contracts, saying that job uncertainty has led to stress and anxiety for those within the profession.
Linda O’ Sullivan, a working SNA and representative for trade union Forsa, believes that SNAs have not received adequate recognition for their work in the past and that newly employed SNAs in particular are at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to long term employment.
“Until you are further up the list in schools for a position of seniority, you never have a permanent role. I’m in my school four years and I’m still last in first out. We have to wait every year for the allocations to come out to see if we still have a job, which is absolutely ludicrous ,” Linda revealed to the Irish Mirror.
