Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Niall Muldoon:

Obviously, from our point of view, it is not the way forward. I would like to see all schools have availability for special needs children and all teachers rotate around special needs classes and all children get a chance to move around situations. We could create a properly inclusive and engaged population of children. The children who do not have special needs will recognise and understand engagement with children who do and vice versa. They would become friends, know each other and see each other around the town. The children with special needs would not be farmed away to somewhere else and know nobody when they came back to their home town. That is what we need to move to as quickly as possible.

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