Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth

Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. John Kearney:

It is a different dynamic at primary level with school patronage, obviously, with the Catholic patronage of schools. That is reflected in the trends. They are the main promoter and subscriber of their individual schools having special classes. You are dealing with roughly 800 post-primary schools in the country. That means there are about 3,200 primary schools. It is about a 50:50 breakdown. There are different dynamics to that around the country and in large urban areas. A total of 50% of primary schools have-----

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