Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Committee on Education and Youth

Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Minister of State at the Department of Education and Youth

2:00 am

Photo of Michael MoynihanMichael Moynihan (Cork North-West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Very much so. A total 80% of the new classes that have been sanctioned in Dublin and across the country are going into existing buildings. There is a huge amount of that. A huge amount of work has also been done by the Department on modular and various other plans that is working towards getting capacity. A lot of the modular buildings being put in place for special schools and classes are already manufactured. Some have moved on site in the past couple of days. We are making progress in that regard. One thing we would be looking at is that, in terms of the staff - the SNAs and teachers - we are quite confident we have all those in place and that we are working on that. Going back to the question the Deputy asked, we know where the challenges are and we are working to try to ensure we have places as early as possible. The modular has a lead-in time, but we have been working hard on the modular.

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