Maureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will certainly get back to the principal. I encourage the Minister to do that. They were very happy with the design of the new school, which is taking the wider corridors, the two lifts and tactile surfaces into account. The reality is that the school was turned down for transport for children with an impairment of one sort or another. The Department only backtracked when it acknowledged that the parents had bought uniforms for those children and that they could get transport there. I will take the Minister up on his offer and ask the principal of the school to contact him directly because there are concerns that the Department was rowing back on the tradition of looking after children with a visual impairment and special needs and that the status the school has had up to now will not continue. As the Minister knows, that tradition has developed between ChildVision and the community school. We hope to see the community school back on its original campus beside ChildVision.

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