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)

We have had many challenges in relation to special education. We undoubtedly have a huge amount of work to do. I have visited to Deputy Coppinger's area and been hugely impressed. However, we have not reached the stage where we cannot get teachers or SNAs. While there may be difficulties with SNAs, we do not have a huge volume of evidence from principals that they cannot get teachers. We do need to sit down with special school principals to learn about the challenges they face but by and large we are able to-----

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