Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion

Photo of Pádraig O'SullivanPádraig O'Sullivan (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

To follow up on that before I ask anything about the twins, Dr. Redmond has said that most schools are willing and quite open. In my experience they are, but there is a bottleneck in Cork. Deputy Ó Laoghaire, who was here a while ago, can attest to that issue. Particularly on his side of the constituency, there is a large suburban area with a population of 30,000 people but there is no ASD provision whatsoever. That is criminal. That has gone on for years. I have named that area publicly in the past, although I will not do it here today. There must be more to the issue in that particular area. I understand that most schools are quite open to it but, in my experience, that is unfortunately not true in every case. I will pass over to Mr. McKelvey on the matter of twins.

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