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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jul 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. In the last two years, the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) has been working with schools to address additional care needs that arise by means of the exceptional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Jul 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 terms of the Post Primary School Transport scheme, children are eligible for transport at primary level where they reside not less than 4.8 kilometres from and are attending their nearest post primary school/education centre as determined by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1237 and 1238 together. 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. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is the national agency with responsibility for the provision of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (29 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1242 and 1243 together. The Assistive Technology Scheme is provided by my Department to supplement the overall approach to providing funding to schools for digital technology and equipment to support children for education purposes. All equipment provided under this scheme supports children who require essential specialist equipment in order to access the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1248 and 1249 together. The NCSE is, in the first instance, the primary body responsible for the matter the Deputy has raised. I have forwarded this issue to them for their attention and direct reply. Deputies are also welcome to raise such queries with the NCSE directly through their dedicated Oireachtas query line at: oireachtasqueries@ncse.ie.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: This Government is fully committed to supporting all children including those with special educational needs to fulfil their full potential and the Programme for Government makes a number of commitments to deliver on this objective. Children with special educational needs includes those children with medical needs such as referenced by the Deputy and given that medical issues impact children...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jul 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. The Department of Education has worked with the Department of Health and the HSE services on the development of a protocol to improve the liaison process in place between...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The Education Plan 2025, which was announced on the 19th of June 2025, confirmed Government approval for the establishment of the Education Therapy Service (ETS). This will see therapy supports extended within the education system, initially in special schools, and subsequently expanded to schools with special classes and mainstream provision overtime. This is not to replace HSE services but...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The School Transport 2030 report was published in early 2024 following a comprehensive analysis and review of the scheme as it currently operates. The recommended changes to the future operation of the schemes include expansion of the current eligibility criteria, addressing current operational challenges and moving towards better integration with public transport to ensure the best value for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Jul 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 school referred to by the Deputy is currently located in interim accommodation on a school campus site in Citywest, Dublin. Bus transport has been provided for the school to this location by the Planning and Building Unit. This is a private...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jul 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. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is the national agency with responsibility for the provision of special education places. This year the NCSE has sanctioned 407...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1278 and 1279 together. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is the national agency with responsibility for the provision of special education places. This year the NCSE has sanctioned 407 new special classes for the coming school year bringing to 3,742 the number of special classes in our schools. A list of these class is available from the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Jul 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 has advised that one of the pupils referred to is eligible for transport however a late payment was received, by which time the service was operating to capacity. Bus Éireann has advised that the other pupils referred to are not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Jul 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 school referred to by the Deputy is currently located in interim accommodation on a school campus site in Citywest, Dublin. Bus transport has been provided for the school to this location by the Planning and Building Unit. This is a private arrangement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (29 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is the national agency with responsibility for the provision of special education places. This year the NCSE has sanctioned 407 new special classes for the coming school year bringing to 3,742 the number of special classes in our schools. There are new classes in every county in Ireland and with the number of special classes doubling in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Jul 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. Bus Éireann endeavours, within available resources, to ensure that each eligible child has a reasonable level of school transport service in the context of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (29 Jul 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. As the National Council For Special Education (NCSE) manages the special education teacher allocation review process, I am forwarding your request to them for their direct...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jul 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. Special education teachers provide additional teaching to children attending mainstream classes with special educational needs using a wide variety of teaching approaches. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: As the Deputy is aware, in September 2024, the Department undertook a review of Circular 0038/2007. An updated circular, Circular 0024/2025 was published in March 2025. The term SSLD will no longer apply in relation to entry to these classes and will be replaced instead with Developmental Language Disorder – Speech Sound Disorder (DLD/SSD). The revised criteria sees, among other...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1313 and 1314 together. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is the national agency with responsibility for the provision of special education places. This year the NCSE has sanctioned 407 new special classes for the coming school year bringing to 3,742 the number of special classes in our schools. There are new classes in every county in...