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Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: It sounds amazing.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Regarding the education therapy service, how can it be ensured there is equal access from a mainstream school and a special school? Will that be easily organised?

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: There is a job of work to be done.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: I thank the witnesses for all the information they sent in. It was actually hard to think of questions, so well done.

Seanad: Agricultural Sector: Motion (1 Oct 2025)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: I thank my Fine Gael colleagues for bringing forward this motion. I welcome the debate and Fianna Fáil will not oppose the motion. Our farmers are world-class food producers. They are the social, economic and cultural pillars of our rural communities and Irish society. From 2020 to 2024, with the leadership of the then Minister, Deputy Charlie McConalogue, Fianna Fáil worked...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Ms Walker-Strong, Ms McGrory, Ms Lawlor, Ms Mortell and Ms O’Rourke are very welcome here this morning. I echo my colleagues’ comments in thanking them for the great work they do. Fair play to them. I have just a few questions. With regard to speech and language therapy, therapy done in school is obviously the way forward and the plan. This is being rolled out in some...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: A joined-up approach. My next question, on social work, is for Ms Walker-Strong and Ms McGrory. I am delighted to hear that they involve the families of children with additional needs. They are often forgotten. There will be siblings and parents of children whose lives have turned out much differently than what they had hoped for or expected. How early do social workers get in touch...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Could Ms O’Rourke state how long an assessment takes ordinarily? Are there long queues?

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Yes.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Thank you.

Seanad: School Transport: Statements (30 Sep 2025)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit to the Upper House. I thank him for taking time out of his very busy schedule. Fair play to him, he is always very available to us here. As the Minister of State knows, Donogh O'Malley, who was Minister for Education from 1966 to 1968, introduced free secondary school education for all in 1967. 1967 was a big year for mankind. Not only was free...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2025)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Today I wish to raise the subject of the lack of public toilets nationally. A lot of councillors have been on to me on behalf of their constituents, members of the public have been on to me, and people who own bars throughout the country have been on to me. It is a no-brainer really that people should be able to relieve themselves when they want to and not have to go into the premises of...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: I welcome the witnesses and their colleagues in the Public Gallery. I thank them for taking time out of their obviously very busy lives to come here this morning. They all stated their cases very well. I will ask each group a question and I might get to come back in again for a second round. My first question is for the representatives of Corpus Christi school, who stated that the...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: It is not standard funding.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: It would be known that the money was coming.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: I thank Dr. Liston and Mr. O'Neill. My next question is for the witnesses from St. James's school. For every child transitioning to secondary school, it is a big deal for them and their parents. I thought the new deadline of 1 October was great until the witnesses pointed out that it may not be as good as I thought it would be. From their lived experience, what would they do?

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: The need is known.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Their parents need to know as well.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: I thank Mr. Cronin. Moving to the witnesses from Inclusion Ireland, I really like the observation that a reformed system means belonging; not special but the same. The next few lines of their opening statement also really resonated with me. Do they think there should be no special classes and that children with additional needs should all be in mainstream classes? I want to understand...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: I wish to ask Inclusion Ireland about the decision-making process. What are their thoughts? How can it be ensured someone would not be influenced by someone - a family member or whoever - with a hidden agenda?