Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Committee on Disability Matters
Inclusive Education for People with Disabilities: Discussion
2:00 am
Micheál Carrigy (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
I refer to the connection between the AIM programme for the preschool being in a different Department and the Minister of State in special education, the crossover and knowing the numbers coming into the system. Regarding the Middletown Centre, I was just speaking to its representatives at the Autism Europe Congress 2025, we had them in at our committee and we visited the centre. I do not think we are utilising the asset that it is. One of the recommendations of the joint committee report which we issued was that the centre should be rolling out a standard of training for SNAs and teachers across the country. Is is possible to use the shared island fund that is there and invest more into it for training across the country?
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