Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has recently written to all Special Schools to advise them that it will consider requests from school authorities who wish to retain students who are over 18 years of age, for an extra school year, in circumstances where they are following courses leading to accreditation at a level of FETAC 3 or above. As such, I would ask the Deputy to advise the parents of the pupil in question to raise the issue of extension of enrolment directly with the school authorities, so that they might make an application to retain the student to my Department, who will consider such a request in accordance with the criteria outlined above.