Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

I wish to raise the case of St. Killian's Special School, a primary school in Mayfield in my constituency. This school has 93 students and is set to expand to 120, making it, potentially, the largest special school in all of Munster. The school has students with severe dyslexia, severe dyspraxia, severe speech and language difficulties and a big majority of the students have autism and complex needs.

To say this school is under-resourced would be quite the understatement. The school is currently short two psychologists, two occupational therapists, two speech and language therapists, two behavioural therapists and at least one social worker. The school was promised by the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, that the therapists would be back in place by 2022. When this failed to materialise, the school was promised by the Minister of State that the therapists would be back in place by May 2023. This has not happened. Will the Taoiseach take this case as an urgent one and will he tell the people who organise the school and the parents when this allocation is going to happen?

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