Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)

Murhur National School in Moyvane, in north Kerry, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week. I wish the principal, Finola Fogarty, and all the school community, staff and past pupils all the best. I am sure the Taoiseach would agree that children with additional needs in rural areas are just as entitled to a full education as those in urban areas. In Murhur there are five children in the local community who require and would benefit from an ASD unit there. They cannot access an appropriate class in Moyvane village. Some children are forced to commute outside of the county to access that, and this causes extra stress and upset to the child and to the family. There is a solution. They have an empty building, they have an empty classroom and I ask the Taoiseach to intervene to ensure that such a facility is made available to Murhur National School.

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