Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth

Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools

2:00 am

Photo of Pauline TullyPauline Tully (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the witnesses and thank them for attending. We all agree that every child has the right to an education in an appropriate setting. The requirement that it be appropriate to their needs is what is important. Preferably, it should be in the child's locality, alongside his or her siblings, but that is not always possible. Account must also be taken of student and parental choice. Do the witnesses find they are getting more applications from parents of children with complex needs? If so, are they having to turn them down?

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