Children with additional needs risk being denied their right to equal access to education.
That's according to parents and carers who protested in Longford Town over the weekend over the government's review of SNAs.
Plans to cut allocations of Special Needs Assistants in over 200 schools across the country were paused for this year after public backlash.
Speaking at the protest on Market Square, SNA Lorelei Fox-Roberts stressed children could lose their access to second level education as a result: