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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Sep 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 (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The School Transport 2030 report was published in early 2024 following a comprehensive analysis and review of the scheme as it currently operates. The recommended changes to the future operation of the schemes include expansion of the current eligibility criteria, addressing current operational challenges and moving towards better integration with public transport to ensure the best value for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: 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 few years. Special school capacity is also being expanded...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Sep 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). SNAs play a central role in the successful inclusion of students with additional and significant care needs in schools. They help ensure that these students can...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Sep 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). In relation to the school in question, the NCSE have confirmed that the review of SNA support for the mainstream classes has been completed, and the outcome issued...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 454 and 455 together. The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Youth. The purpose of my Department's School Transport Scheme is, having regard to available resources, to support the transport to and from school of children who reside remote from their nearest school. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Youth. Under the current terms of the School Transport Schemes, children are eligible for transport at primary level where they reside not less than 3.2 kilometres from and are attending their nearest national school, and at post-primary level where they reside...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for this government. The Home Tuition Grant Scheme is governed by annual circulars which sets out the purpose, eligibility criteria and details of the scheme. Full details are published on the following webpage: www.gov.ie/en/department-of-education/services/home-tuition/ All schools are aware of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (17 Sep 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 National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is, in the first instance, the primary body responsible for the matter the Deputy has raised. Deputies are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Youth. There is a facility within the Special Educational Needs Transport Scheme for the appointment of a school transport escort where a child’s care and safety needs while on school transport are such as to require the support of a School Transport...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Youth. In the 2024/25 school year, over 173,000 children were transported daily in approximately 8,200 vehicles across 10,600 routes daily to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. This...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Sep 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). SNAs play a central role in the successful inclusion of students with additional and significant care needs in schools. They help ensure that these students can...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Sep 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). Minister McEntee and I asked that the Department and the NCSE bring forward all timelines for the 2026/2027 school year to ensure better planning and to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Sep 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: Special Educational Needs (17 Sep 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) is the national agency with responsibility for the provision of special education places. This year the NCSE has sanctioned 407...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Sep 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 information requested by the Deputy is not readily available. However, officials from the School Transport Section of my Department will forward the information directly to the Deputy as soon as it is available.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 489 and 490 together. I propose to take PQs 489 and 490 together. The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Youth. This includes the procurement tendering process to include services provided by contractors under the scheme. This is a competitive process conducted in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Strategies (17 Sep 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 (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Youth. Bus Éireann has advised that children residing in the area referred to by the Deputy who are attending the post primary school referred are not eligible under the terms of the Scheme as they are not attending their nearest post primary school/centre....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Sep 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 information requested by the Deputy is not readily available. However, officials from the School Transport Section of my Department will forward the information directly to the Deputy as soon as it is available.