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

I am conscious of the year we have had. I want to put this on the record first and then I will go back to the Deputy's questions. I am conscious there are parents listening tonight, as the Deputy said, looking for reassurance about places. We have a meeting of the Cabinet subcommittee on disability in the next week or ten days. The Minister gave an undertaking at last week's meeting that the information brought to Cabinet would be brought to this committee simultaneously. The figure of 92% might have been a bit low. It is certainly north of that. "Pathway" is very simple language in my terms. It means a school place for children. We are not----

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