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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an 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 additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an 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 NCSE has the responsibility for planning and coordinating school supports for children with special educational needs including the allocation of Special Needs Assistants (SNAs)....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I can confirm that the reply requested by the Deputy issued on 5 September.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an 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 additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an 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). Special needs assistants (SNAs) play a central role in the successful inclusion of students with additional and significant care needs into mainstream education, special classes and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an 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 and the NCSE work closely in relation to the forward planning of new special classes and additional special school places, work which is progressing for the 2025/26...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy for her correspondence . Since 2021 the Government has sought to reinstate the pre-existing on-site health and social care supports to special schools. Between 2021 and 2022 the Government provided funding for the reinstatement of 223 posts that had been historically provided. While some services have been reinstated it is acknowledged that progress has been affected by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 638 and 639 together. The Department of Education does not provide funding to special schools to cover the cost of private therapists. The provision of health-related therapy services for children with disabilities is a matter for the HSE and queries in relation to those services should be directed to the HSE or to the Department of Children, Equality,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Under the Assistive Technology Scheme, as set out in my Department’s Circular 0010/2013, funding is provided to schools towards the cost of computers and specialist equipment, which are required for educational purposes. All equipment provided under this scheme supports children with more complex disabilities who, in order to access the school curriculum, require essential specialist...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an 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 additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 669 and 673 together. There is currently 134 special schools nationwide, 124 supported by the National Council for Special Education (NCSE), 7 attached to hospitals and 3 attached to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHs). My department and the NCSE continue to monitor and review the need for further new special schools and the expansion of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I want to thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. The Department of Education (DoE) recognises the importance of supporting student transitions into and from school settings while ensuring that students with more complex needs are supported optimally. The recently launched National Strategy and Action Plan for Lifelong guidance is about helping people to make better choices about...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Ensuring that children with special educational needs has an appropriate education is a key priority for the Goverment. 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 classes and special school places are provided. Parents should make contact...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Following the allocation of an additional €13 million for the expansion of services within the NCSE, the NCSE has examined the various roles and responsibilities within the organisation. This has culminated in a workforce & organisational plan underpinning the recruitment extra staff and guiding the transformational change in the NCSE structure, to provide more direct and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 693 and 694 together. Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an 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 NCSE has the responsibility for planning and coordinating school supports for children with special educational needs...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an 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 additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 709 and 710 together. Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an 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...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I move: Wednesday's business shall be: - Motion re Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions (without debate) - Motion re Thirty-First Report of the Standing Committee of Selection and Appointment of Committee Cathaoirligh (without debate) - Statements on the CJEU Judgment in the Apple State aid case (not to exceed 2 hrs 27 mins) - Mental Health Bill 2024 (Second Stage) (if not...

Animal Health and Welfare (Prohibition of Animal Testing for Botox) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (18 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: It is not opposed.

Thirty-First Report of Standing Committee and Appointment of Committee Cathaoirligh: Motion (18 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I move: That Dáil Éireann, pursuant to Standing Order 34, and with effect from 19th September, 2024— (1) approves the Thirty-First Report of the Standing Committee of Selection, copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 13th September, 2024, and discharges members from Committees and appoints members to Committees accordingly, in substitution for, in the...