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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (18 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: On a general comment, it is welcome overall on the part of the Department and the NCSE that large schools are engaging with the process on additional special classes. It is hugely important that this happens and that they engage. On the point the Deputy made about the subsidence, has that information been fed back to the Department? If any technical or professional report they have...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (18 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. Over the past four and a half years, we sat on the disability matters committee. I know the passion the Deputy brings to the issue of special education in Louth. In many of the discussions we had at that committee, she brought forward the challenges that are there, not only at primary school but post-primary as well and, indeed, in preschool...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (18 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I appreciate the Deputy raising the issue. I will deal with the specific issues he has raised in respect of Scoil Eoin. I thank the Deputy for the question and for the opportunity to outline how the Department and the NCSE continue to support children with additional needs. I want to stress that enabling students with additional needs to receive an education appropriate to their needs is...

Provision of Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Deputies for tabling the motion before us. I welcome the parents in the Public Gallery. I also welcome the contributions that have been made so eloquently by Members across the House. I thank those who have wished us well in our endeavours. I am delighted to have the role of Minister of State with responsibility for special education and inclusion and to be working alongside...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Offices (18 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: School Admissions (18 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. They advise that the local special educational needs organiser (SENO) is working closely with the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 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. Of the 3,336 special classes nationwide, for the 2024/25 school year, 156 are in the Fingal County...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (18 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The majority of children with special educational needs, including those with dyslexia, are supported to attend their mainstream local school. This is appropriate as it is generally in the best interest of children to access their local school with their peers unless a more specialist setting is required. Within the mainstream settings, students are supported by special education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: Since 2021, the Government has sought to reinstate therapy supports previously available to special schools. Between 2021 and 2022, the Government provided funding for the reinstatement of 223 posts that had been historically provided in approximately half of all special schools. While some services have been reinstated it is acknowledged that progress has been affected by the shortage of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The pilot for enhanced in-school therapy support to special schools is an integrated pilot programme which sees the delivery of enhanced in-school therapy supports provided by the HSE’s Children’s Disability Network Teams and will be supported by the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). The Department and NCSE are also represented on the Steering Group overseeing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 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). Almost 1,700 classes have been sanctioned by the NCSE in recent years, 11 new special schools have also been established and many more expanded. For this school year...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 360, 361, 362 and 363 together. The majority of children with special educational needs, including those with dyslexia, are supported to attend their mainstream local school. This is appropriate as it is generally in the best interest of children to access their local school with their peers unless a more specialist setting is required. Within the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 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 Special Education Teaching (SET) Allocation Model is a standardised allocation model that provides schools with additional teaching hours to support the teaching...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (18 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. They advise that the local special educational needs organiser (SENO) is working closely with the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 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). My department's Planning and Building Unit are engaging directly with the school patron regarding the accommodation needs of the school referred to. My department is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 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 (18 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. Of the 3,336 special classes nationwide, 408 are new for the 2024/2025 school year. 289 at primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2025)

Michael Moynihan: As you are aware enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for government. Thanks to considerable investment in special education in recent years 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (13 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. Almost 1,700 classes have been sanctioned by the NCSE in the last five years, eleven new special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (13 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. Almost 1,700 classes have been sanctioned by the NCSE in the last five years, eleven new special...