Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, Independents 4 Change) | Oireachtas source

I take on board the point that there has been a huge increase. That is very welcome and it was needed from the point of view of autistic children. However, the fact of the matter is that children in Dublin 12 are still leaving the community to go to school and there are still children with no school places. There are two special classes in Scoil Íosagáin but they are full and cannot take any more children. There is a backlog of pupils wanting to get into the autism classes in that school. We have a situation in the Assumption secondary school because the feeder school is Drimnagh primary, which has no autism classes, so these children have nowhere to go. There is a need to look at the schools again and possibly encourage them to open the autism classes because they are badly needed.

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