Special needs assistants have criticised school directives, which allegedly require them to complete tasks outside of their job description, such as laying concrete and cleaning fish tanks, in an Oireachtas meeting.
Representatives from the Fórsa trade union met last week to discuss the accreditation of SNAs with Minister of State for Special Education Josepha Madigan.
Linda O’ Sullivan, an SNA present at the meeting, says that these instructions, which were given to members of the Fórsa union, take away from the special needs assistant’s primary role of caring for vulnerable children.
