Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 November 2023
Select Committee on Education and Skills
Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary)
Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
-----all new schools, particularly post-primary, will automatically have special classes. That is all the new builds and new schools going forward. We are trying to fill where we did not have capacity. It was never right that we had not adequate provision for special education. The best education is one that meets the needs of a child. I that is in a special school, it is a special school. If there is capacity to be in mainstream, then there is capacity to be in a mainstream special class or whatever the case might be. We have made enormous progress in the past three years. I take the point about people being discommoded in terms of going from one to the other, a child in one place and another child somewhere else. If the Deputy gives me the details relating to the two schools he mentioned, Martina will follow up on that.
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