All children must reach full potential, says Hanafin
Her assurance, however, came a day after the heartbroken parents of a six-year-old autistic boy were told the State had no obligation to provide a specialist educational programme for him.
Cian and Yvonne O Cuanachain sued the State over its failure to provide their son Sean with 30 hours a week of applied behavioural analysis [ABA], a form of tuition experts believed could dramatically improve his ability to learn.