Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I ask the Minister to outline the position regarding providing resource hours for children with Down's syndrome in mainstream schools. Every year between 80 and 120 babies with Down's syndrome are born in the State. At the moment approximately 200 children with Down's syndrome in national schools have no resource hours. Can we put this right? I introduced legislation recently and my objective is to ensure that all children with Down's syndrome are given adequate resource hours.

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