Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Committee on Disability Matters
Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Dr. Rosalyn Tamming:
No, we have not. We sort of see a lot of that in the realm of NCSE, which does a lot of that work and has come up with its inclusive education policy. We would not have done that level of analysis. The UNCRPD states that children have the right to be educated in the mainstream setting in their local community. We are far from that, and we are going in the wrong direction. We need a course reset. In the new national human rights strategy for disabled people, it says there will be a roadmap towards inclusive education. It is really important that this is developed and that there is cross-government support for it. I envisage something like Sláintecare, whereby everyone gets behind this model. It will take ten or 20 years to deliver, but there has to be a big push behind it that keeps going.
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