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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (11 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Deputies Cullinane and McGuinness for raising the issue. At the outset, I stress that enabling students with special educational needs to receive an appropriate education is an absolute priority for me and the Government. It is the Government's priority to ensure that all children have an appropriate school placement and that the necessary supports are provided to our schools to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (11 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Deputies. I agree wholeheartedly with what the Deputies have said. I fully understand the challenges that are being faced in Waterford and across the country in relation to school places. It is an issue that behoves all of us. In my role and the responsibility that I have, I intend to use everything at my disposal to ensure places are made available. I know and I understand...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The Assessment of Need (AON) is a statutory process under the Disability Act (2005) whereby the Health Service Executive (HSE) reports on the health and education needs of a child/young person. The provision of Guidelines for the assessment of needs process is a matter for the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and the HSE. It is Department policy, in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (11 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: As you are aware enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for government. Thanks to considerable investment in special education in recent years 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 additional supports, special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (11 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Deputy for his correspondence. It is my ambition, and as outlined in the Programme for Government, to extend therapy supports within the Education system, over time. Currently, the Department is involved in a number of initiatives in this area. In June 2024 Minister Foley and Minister Naughton announced the Educational Therapy Support Service (ETSS). The ETSS is designed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: As you are aware enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for government. Thanks to considerable investment in special education in recent years 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 additional supports, special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 304 and 305 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). The vast majority of children with special educational needs are supported to attend mainstream classes with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (11 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: As you are aware enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for government. Thanks to considerable investment in special education in recent years 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 additional supports, special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: As you are aware enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for government. Thanks to considerable investment in special education in recent years 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 additional supports, special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: As you are aware 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 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. There continues to be an increasing need to provide additional special school places to...

Provision of Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Deputies for tabling the motion before us. I welcome the parents in the Public Gallery. I also welcome the contributions that have been made so eloquently by Members across the House. I thank those who have wished us well in our endeavours. I am delighted to have the role of Minister of State with responsibility for special education and inclusion and to be working alongside...

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...

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: 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: As you are aware enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for government. Thanks to considerable investment in special education in recent years 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 additional supports, special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (13 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. Almost 1,700 classes have been sanctioned by the NCSE in the last five years, eleven new special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (13 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. Almost 1,700 classes have been sanctioned by the NCSE in the last five years, eleven new special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Offices (18 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...