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

Mr. John Haran:

We are receiving applications from children within our designation, that is, the mild range. Perhaps that is because parents know St. Bernadette's Special School is a school for children with a mild general learning disability. Little Angels Special School is the school in Letterkenny for children with moderate and profound learning disabilities. However, we will very soon have a waiting list, which we have never had in our history. Our school will have 125 students in September, which takes us very close to capacity. We are getting loads of applications from the students who should be coming to us.

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