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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Oct 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is the statutory body responsible for the provision of special education and allocating supports for children with special educational needs. The NCSE is currently collating the data and information received through the parents notify process and are engaging with schools regarding where specialist provision is best placed for the 2026/27...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Oct 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: National Council for Special Education (15 Oct 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) issues guidance each year to schools regarding SNA reviews and the guidance for 2025/26 school year issued on the 12 September 2025. It is important to clarify some of the concerns raised since publication of the guidelines. The process for allocating SNAs has been in place since 2014 and is not changing this year. There has been no freeze...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Oct 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is the statutory body responsible for the provision of special education and allocating supports for children with special educational needs with regard to policy and best practices as laid out by my department. Departmental policy is that special education provision should be made in State funded recognised schools (free-scheme schools)...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Oct 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) has responsibility for coordinating and advising on the education provision for children with special educational needs, including the allocation of special needs assistants (SNAs). Schools were issued with their SNA allocation by the NCSE for the 2025/26 school year in June 2025. The NCSE issues guidance each year to schools regarding SNA...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Oct 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) has responsibility for coordinating and advising on the education provision for children with special educational needs, including the allocation of special needs assistants (SNAs). The NCSE issues guidance each year to schools regarding SNA reviews and the guidance for 2025/26 school year issued on the 12 September 2025. The SNA allocation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Oct 2025)

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

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Oct 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) has responsibility for coordinating and advising on the education provision for children with special educational needs, including the allocation of special needs assistants (SNAs). The NCSE issues guidance each year to schools regarding SNA reviews and the guidance for 2025/26 school year issued on the 12 September 2025. The SNA allocation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Oct 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) has responsibility for coordinating and advising on the education provision for children with special educational needs, including the allocation of special needs assistants (SNAs). I will arrange for your query to be forwarded to the NCSE for their attention and direct reply. Deputies are also welcome to raise such queries with the NCSE...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Oct 2025)

Michael Moynihan: Early intervention classes are available in mainstream and special school settings for children aged 3 -5 years old with a diagnosis of autism. There is also a small number dedicated to children who are deaf/hard of hearing. These classes are intended to provide early support to children before they start school and can aid their transition to junior infants. The National Council for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (21 Oct 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 367, 368, 369, 370, 371 and 372 together. The Department of Education aims to facilitate every individual through learning, to achieve their full potential and to ensure that the education system upholds the rights of every individual to receive an education appropriate to their needs. To support this, there has been significant growth and investment in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (21 Oct 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. 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 IPAS/EROC...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (21 Oct 2025)

Michael Moynihan: Officials from the School Transport Section of my Department are looking into the matter raised by the Deputy and are currently engaging with Bus Éireann and will reply directly to the Deputy as soon as the information is available.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (21 Oct 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Youth. Unfortunately, difficulties have arisen in a number of locations, with a small number of contracted services, where it has not yet been possible to provide vehicles/drivers. Both the department and Bus Éireann are very conscious of the challenges...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Oct 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. 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 IPAS/EROC...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (21 Oct 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) has responsibility for coordinating and advising on the education provision for children with special educational needs, including the allocation of special needs assistants (SNAs). The NCSE issues guidance each year to schools regarding SNA reviews and the guidance for 2025/26 school year issued on the 12 September 2025. The SNA allocation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Oct 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. Updated and revised Guidelines for Post-­Primary Schools Supporting Young People with Special Educational Needs in Mainstream Classes were issued to all schools on the 10th...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (21 Oct 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 is responsible for the planning and timetabling of school transport routes on behalf of the Department. Safety of children travelling on the school transport services is of paramont importance to the Department and to Bus Éireann....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (21 Oct 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: Special Educational Needs (21 Oct 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is the statutory body responsible for the provision of special education and allocating supports for children with special educational needs. Close to 4, 000 places were made available for the 2025/26 school year. This was made up of 2,700 new places and 1,200 places through the natural movement of students from primary to post-primary or...