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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive a befitting education is a priority for this government. It is also a key priority for my department and for the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). The vast majority of children with special educational needs are supported to attend mainstream classes with their peers. Where children with more complex needs require...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive a befitting education is a priority for this government. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) has responsibility for coordinating and advising on the education provision for children with special educational needs. There are 3,336 special classes nationwide, 408 of these are new for the 2024/25 school year, 289 at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: As you are aware enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for government. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) has responsibility for coordinating and advising on the education provision for children with special educational needs. The Special Education Teaching (SET) Allocation Model is a standardised allocation model that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive a befitting education is a priority for this government. It is also a key priority for my department and for the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). The vast majority of children with special educational needs are supported to attend mainstream classes with their peers. Where children with more complex needs require...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for this government. It is also a key priority for me as Minister for Special Education & Inclusion, for my department and for the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). Special schools funded by my department are classified as primary national schools. They are intended, in accordance...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 199, 200, 201, 202, 211 and 212 together. Enabling children with special educational needs to receive a befitting education is a priority for this government. It is also a key priority for my department and for the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). My department’s Special Education Section and Planning and Building Unit work closely...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for government. My department works closely with the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) on the forward planning of new special classes and additional special school places. Building on successive budgets, Budget 2025 secured funding for up to 400 new special classes in mainstream schools, and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (20 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: On 16 January 2024, the National Council for Special Education published its policy advice paper on special schools and classes entitled “An Inclusive education for an Inclusive society”. This follows a request in October 2018, by the then Minister for Education and Skills to advise on the educational provision for students in special schools and classes and to make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive a befitting education is a priority for this Government. It is also a key priority for my Department and for the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). The vast majority of children with special educational needs are supported to attend mainstream classes with their peers. Where children with more complex needs require...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (20 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: My Department's Home Tuition Grant Schemes provide funding towards the provision of a compensatory educational service for children who, for a number of specific reasons, are unable to attend school. The aim of the Department is to meet the needs of families and to ensure every child is allocated a suitable school placement. The preferred approach is that children are educated in school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive a befitting education is a priority for this government. It is also a key priority for my department and for the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). Of the 3,336 special classes nationwide, 69 are in County Westmeath. 10 of these are new for the 2024/25 school year, 7 at primary level and 3 at post-primary level....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: As you are aware enabling children with special educational needs to receive a befitting education is a priority for government. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) has responsibility for coordinating and advising on the education provision for children with special educational needs. They advise that the local special educational needs organiser (SENO) is working closely...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The pilot for enhanced in-school therapy support to special schools is an integrated pilot programme which sees the delivery of enhanced in-school therapy supports provided by the HSE’s Children’s Disability Network Teams and will be supported by the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). The focus of this pilot is to provide the effective delivery of enhanced...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive a befitting education is a priority for this government. It is also a key priority for my department and for the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) has responsibility for coordinating and advising on the education provision for children with special educational needs....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: As you are aware enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for government. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) has responsibility for coordinating and advising on the education provision for children with special educational needs. Special needs assistants (SNAs) play a central role in the successful inclusion of students with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: As you are aware enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for government. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) has responsibility for coordinating and advising on the education provision for children with special educational needs. They advise that the local special educational needs organiser (SENO) is working closely with the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (18 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The Department of Education, together with the NCSE, has been working with parents, schools, patron bodies and other stakeholders in County Louth and across the country to provide sufficient special education placements for children with special needs, in this case in the Louth area. By the end of this year, the number of special classes available nationally in mainstream schools will have...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (18 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: On a general comment, it is welcome overall on the part of the Department and the NCSE that large schools are engaging with the process on additional special classes. It is hugely important that this happens and that they engage. On the point the Deputy made about the subsidence, has that information been fed back to the Department? If any technical or professional report they have...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (18 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. Over the past four and a half years, we sat on the disability matters committee. I know the passion the Deputy brings to the issue of special education in Louth. In many of the discussions we had at that committee, she brought forward the challenges that are there, not only at primary school but post-primary as well and, indeed, in preschool...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (18 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I appreciate the Deputy raising the issue. I will deal with the specific issues he has raised in respect of Scoil Eoin. I thank the Deputy for the question and for the opportunity to outline how the Department and the NCSE continue to support children with additional needs. I want to stress that enabling students with additional needs to receive an education appropriate to their needs is...