Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. I have not forgotten that I want to meet with him as Chair of the disability matters committee. I thank him for the work he does with the committee across government in a range of areas. The Ministers of State, Deputies Rabbitte and Naughton, are very much appraised of the issues he raised, namely, recruitment and retention, services, the multi-annual funding and that issue of planning around school places. Changes and reforms are under way in the Department of Education in terms of better forward planning, particularly around second level. We might get the Deputy a note to provide an update on the various issues he raised. I am happy to meet in the context of the budget.

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