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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The Government are 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 now just over 28,000 students accessing special class and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: As you are aware enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for government. The vast majority of children with special education needs attend mainstream classes and are supported to do so by their mainstream teacher and close to 15,000 special education teachers and 12,500 special needs assistants (SNAs). The National Council for Special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The development of the National Therapy Support Service is a standalone commitment in the programme for government and is a cross-department initiative. It will ensure that a coordinated approach will be employed to increase college places for health and social care professionals. Work in regard to this important service has already been rolled out in some special schools, through...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 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 (27 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). As you are aware five new special schools will be established for the next school year, two in County Dublin and one each in counties Cork, Monaghan and Tipperary. This...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 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). Of the 3,336 special classes nationwide, 98 are in County Kerry, 7 were sanctioned for the 2024/25 school year, 5 at primary level and 2 at post-primary level. There are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 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 (27 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). There continues to be an increasing need to provide additional special school places to support children with complex needs. To meet this need, eleven new special schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: It is my ambition, and as outlined in the Programme for Government, to extend therapy supports within the Education system, over time. This ambition is reflected in the establishment of the Educational Therapy Support Service (ETSS) within the NCSE in June 2024. This expansion of NCSE therapy services is expected to build on the achievements and impacts of the School Inclusion Model...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 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. My department works closely with the NCSE on the forward planning of new special classes and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: It is important to recall that the majority of children with special educational needs are supported by mainstream class teachers, special education teachers and special needs assistants (SNAs) to attend mainstream classes with their peers. Where children have more complex needs, special classes are provided and for children with the most complex needs, special school places are provided. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The provision of clinical therapy supports to children is the responsibility of the HSE. Matters in relation to the provision of therapy services and the deployment of HSE staff should be directed to the HSE or to the Department of Children, Disability, and Equality. My department is working with the Department of Health, DCEDIY and the HSE to develop and strengthen more coherent structures...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: It is my ambition, and as outlined in the Programme for Government, to extend therapy supports within the Education system, over time. This ambition is reflected in the establishment of the Educational Therapy Support Service (ETSS) within the NCSE in June 2024. This expansion of NCSE therapy services is expected to build on the achievements and impacts of the School Inclusion Model...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 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). Of the 3,336 special classes nationwide, 602 are in County Dublin. 69 of these were newly sanctioned for the 2024/25 school year, 48 at primary level and 21 at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 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). There are 3,336 special classes nationwide, 408 of these were newly sanctioned by the NCSE for the 2024/25 school year, 289 at primary level and 119 at post-primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 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). Of the 3,336 special classes nationwide, 54 are in County Monaghan. 7 of these were sanctioned for the 2024/25 school year, 6 at primary level and 1 at post-primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 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 current designation of special schools as primary schools is one of a range of additional challenges facing our special schools. My department has been actively...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: While the provision of clinical therapy supports to children is the responsibility of the HSE, my department is working with the Department of Health, DCEDIY and the HSE to develop and strengthen more coherent structures to enable children and young people to access therapeutic supports. On the 9th August 2024, the Government made a decision to support a special schools’ pilot to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 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. Special needs assistants (SNAs) play a central role in the successful inclusion of students with...