Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is a failure of everyone who has been involved in this service through the years if a simple thing like getting children who need a school place into schools cannot be done. We are paying people extremely good wages to do their job. They should be doing it. It is incredible that we have to set up a task force to do that. Let us give them the time and energy, however. They do not have much time. September 2025 is coming to us.

I want to mention Danu Community Special School, which has 12 school places. It was promised a school building that was supposed to come in before Christmas. There is also an issue relating to the HSE and the WTE hours that were allocated to it. I will send the letter on to the Ministers of State. I ask them to have a look at that and to have a chat about it soon.

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