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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The Education Plan 2025 outlines the Department’s key annual priorities and commits to driving a substantial, multifaceted agenda—including education and youth policy, school infrastructure, inspections, psychological supports, governance, reform, and parliamentary processes. With a large and complex workload, the plan focuses on delivering impactful reforms and initiatives this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 391 and 392 together. This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their full potential and the Programme for Government makes a number of commitments to deliver on this objective. Through the accelerated provision of additional special class and special school places over recent years, there are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their full potential and the Programme for Government makes a number of commitments to deliver on this objective. Special needs assistants (SNAs) play a central role in the successful inclusion of students with additional and significant care needs in schools. They help ensure that these...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their full potential and the Programme for Government makes a number of commitments to deliver on this objective. The NCSE actively encourage expressions of interest from schools to open special classes, and I appreciate and commend the efforts taken by boards of management in expressing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their full potential and the Programme for Government makes a number of commitments to deliver on this objective. 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 (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their full potential and the Programme for Government makes a number of commitments to deliver on this objective. 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: Departmental Policies (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their full potential and the Programme for Government makes a number of commitments to deliver on this objective. The NCSE actively encourage expressions of interest from schools to open special classes, and I appreciate and commend the efforts taken by boards of management in expressing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 403, 411, 412 and 413 together. The government is committed to the provision of additional special school places for children with more complex educational needs. Over 300 new special school places are being provided for the coming 2025/2026 school year. Five new special schools are being established in addition to the eleven new special schools opened...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Attendance (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The position of the Department of Education & Youth is that all pupils who are enrolled in a school should attend school for the full day. Where this is not possible for exceptional circumstances this is known as a reduced school day. A commitment was made to ensure robust data collection on the use of reduced school days and to further ensure that reduced school days are only used...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: Providing inclusive education to children with special educational needs is a fundamental principle of the education system. This principle is observed through Department policies, Teaching Council requirements for initial teacher education, curriculum provision and the range of supports provided to schools by the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) and Oide. Teachers undertake...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an appropriate education is a priority for this government. It is also a key priority for me, 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Youth. The terms of the School Transport Scheme for Children with Special Educational Needs remain the same for the 2025/26 school year. Under the terms of my Department's School Transport Scheme for Children with Special Educational Needs, children are eligible...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their full potential and the Programme for Government makes a number of commitments to deliver on this objective. Special schools support children and young people aged between 4 and 18 years of age with the most complex special educational needs and ensure positive links are established...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I would like to thank the deputy for the question. The SET allocation model is designed to distribute additional teaching resources across the entire school system. This is to ensure that additional teaching resources are available to support pupils with the greatest level of learning need. There is a defined level of resources available to distribute across the whole school system. A...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their full potential and the Programme for Government makes a number of commitments to deliver on this objective. 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: School Transport (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Youth. The scheme is made up of three separate schemes, the school transport scheme for primary, post primary and for children with special educational needs. Transport is also provided for children who have arrived in Ireland from Ukraine and those residing in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The Summer Programme is an educational programme which is run during the summer months. Sometimes referred to as July Provision, the Summer Programme was established to support the educational provision for children with severe/profound general learning disability and children with Autism by extending the school year for four weeks annually, typically into the month of July. As a direct...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their full potential and the Programme for Government makes a number of commitments to deliver on this objective. Special schools funded by my department are classified as primary national schools. They are intended, in accordance with the provisions of rule 64(1) of the Rules for National...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 100 and 101 together. The government is committed to the provision of additional special school places for children with more complex educational needs. Over 300 new special school places are being provided for the coming 2025/2026 school year. Five new special schools are being established in addition to the eleven new special schools opened over the last...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their full potential and the Programme for Government makes a number of commitments to deliver on this objective. In order to support the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) and forward planning my department recently published Circular 0039/2025. This circular informs school...