Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I will ask the Taoiseach about the provision of autism spectrum disorder, ASD, classrooms. Two years ago, the NCSE recommended two new ASD classrooms for a school in Glasnevin in my constituency. However, the planning and building unit is not responding to any of its calls and has not responded for more than a year now. Is there an unwritten policy that only reconfigured classrooms, where there is already some existing space in a school, are getting the go-ahead and not those that require new modular builds? That seems to be what is happening. There seems to be a policy of quantity over quality.

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