Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

Will the Minister of State apologise to the four DEIS - Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools - schools that she named? She said that the decision to name the schools had been made because they were "not engaging at all" with the Department and were "just ignoring correspondence". When the schools produced correspondence to prove that was not the case, the Minister of State's story changed. She said they were ignoring the import of the correspondence, a very different story from what she had made public. Will she apologise for naming these schools in the way she did? Will she apologise for using the four schools as a scapegoat for the failure of the Government to deal with the situation and to prioritise children with special needs? Will she commit to providing not only the places in the schools but also the resources, particularly staffing, to enable schools to provide the necessary education to children with additional or special needs?

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