Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 November 2012
Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs
Allocations for Public Expenditure 2013: Discussion with Minister for Children and Youth Affairs
12:15 pm
Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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Yes. Deputy Regina Doherty referred to children with special educational needs who are slow learners. I understand that heretofore there was a facility whereby such children could avail of the second free preschool year. It appears that this practice has been discontinued.