Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to raise the issue of educational disadvantage and inclusion. This week, I met the parents of children with dyslexia. They set up a parent advocacy group and within a short period of time more than 60 people had been in contact with them. I have also been in touch with parents who had expected a dyslexia unit to be established in the school on Roselawn Road only for it to be pulled at the last minute. Many parents acknowledge and accept, as do teachers and educational psychologists, that mainstream is not the best for every child and that some will need extra and intensive support in a special setting. Will the Minister engage with the Minister for Education to ensure a special unit or school is established in Dublin 15 to ensure that in the first instance every child will get a chance to have the best education we can provide and to ensure students are not forced to travel up to two to three hours every day to a special school in Swords, Tallaght or the north inner city?

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