Christopher O'Sullivan (Cork South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Goal 4 refers to quality education and goal 10 refers to reducing inequalities. Both apply to a developing situation at Scoil Eoin in Innishannon, which I recently visited. It is a fantastic school with amazing staff. It has children with a whole range of intellectual disabilities and it is crying out for extra special needs assistants, SNAs. Not only is the school having an issue securing an extra SNA allocation, it is struggling to get the special educational needs organiser, SENO, to visit the school to see the situation on the ground. The SENO was supposed to visit the school on October 26 but now it has been put back. This is not only impacting the education of the children at the school but also the school's ability to provide education to future pupils with intellectual disabilities. I ask the Taoiseach to use his offices to intervene and ensure that at the very least, the SENO visits Scoil Eoin as soon as possible.

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