Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth
Recruitment and Retention of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Frank Hanlon:
Some schools will have mainstream and special class allocation, as Mr. Kearney talked about. That remains as a base allocation. If the care need is in the school, whether it is a mainstream or a special class, the resources will be allocated to match that. It is not about robbing Peter to pay Paul, but about looking at a whole school and making sure, whether it a mainstream or a special class, it has the level of SNA resources it needs.
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