SNA protests: ‘My son suffers the same whether it’s a redeployment or a cut’

While the number of special needs assistants has grown, so too has the need for such posts, writes Education Correspondent Jess Casey

Parents, special needs assistants (SNAs), and their supporters demonstrating outside Leinster House in Dublin on Wednesday. Picture: Bairbre Holmes/PA

Outside Leinster House this week, Emily Kane held a placard reading: “He is six. He is capable. He needs his SNA.” 

The Dublin mother was among those gathered to protest amid the fallout from reviews of special needs assistant (SNA) posts.