Tom Fleming (Kerry South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

While all students are negatively impacted by these cutbacks, there are more vulnerable students. The Minister mentioned the Limerick incident. I would also point to children with special needs, non-English-speaking non-nationals, the Travelling community, etc. Cyberbullying is another issue. Some students are in the criminal justice system. Socio-economically disadvantaged students are disproportionately impacted because substitute services are not available.

The survey highlighted another matter. In addition to losing classroom subject teachers, many schools have also lost specialist teachers, for example, resource teachers and home-school liaison teachers. Some 40% of schools have lost learning support resource teaching hours and 37% have lost English language support hours.

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