Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for raising the matter. The Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, and the Department, will continue to engage with schools and families in relation to all of this. It should be emphasised that when schools are notified of their special education teacher allowance for this September, there will be an increase of 1,000 teachers to provide special education in our schools. There is an increase in the number of teachers we have, meaning there will be 14,600 special education teachers in place. The model that we are looking to make some changes to has been in place since 2017. I cannot commit to this model being stopped or paused but we will continue to engage with schools and families.

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