Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am not too sure that is the issue because we have had fairly rapid developments in special education in the past two and a half years. New schools have been established for the first time in over a decade. We have had two to three new special schools and new ASD units. The Department of Education was given the green light to spend a lot of capital moneys in the last year and it did. It went ahead of budget. There are ongoing talks in Government on trying to facilitate, especially in the area of special education, further provision of capital facilities. I am not au faitwith the specifics of the school the Deputy has raised but we are determined the prioritisation of special education in terms of capital projects would continue this year.

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