Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I call on the Minister for Education and Skills to reverse the 15% cut in resource teaching hours imposed in 2012 upon individual students with special educational needs prior to piloting the model recommended by the National Council for Special Education, to indicate whether the pilot scheme will be introduced in the coming school year, to set out the number and percentage of schools in which it is proposed to run the pilot, to restore the resource teaching hours allocated to each student with special educational needs to the level pertaining in 2010 as an interim measure to ensure students with special educational needs are not adversely impacted while we experiment with the new system, and to make a statement on the matter.

See this speech in context