Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The purpose of amendments Nos. 37 and 41 is to provide that a special school or class in a school does not have to admit a student who does not have the specified category or categories of special education need that the school or class has been approved by the Minister to cater for. This means that special schools or classes will not be required to admit students who do not have the category or categories of special education need for which the school caters. Essentially, these are to allow a school that has, for example, a special ASD unit to not admit a child who is not on the ASD spectrum to that class.