Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 December 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs

11:15 am

Photo of James ReillyJames Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On the special needs initiative, every one of the services from 2017 on - the course runs next year - that has an inclusion officer or co-ordinator will get an extra €2 per child per week in capitation regardless of whether there is a special needs child in the school. The idea is to promote inclusion. These are further funds that have been made available. There are many ways of making the services sustainable, but I understand Deputy Troy's point on the issue of in and out and-----

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