Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

For the past four years the special needs assistant allocations were published in July, which meant that hundreds of special needs assistants finished the school year without knowing whether they would have a job or an income the following September. Last year special needs assistants called off industrial action purely on the basis that the Minister and his Department had given a firm commitment that the allocation figures would be published much earlier this year. We are now halfway through the month of May. Will the Minister confirm when he or his Department will publish the special needs assistant allocation figures for this year?

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