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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Budgets (1 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. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 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 total number of children enrolled in the school transport scheme in was approx. 162,245 in 2023 and approx. 172,509 in 2024. These figures include pupils traveling on mainstream services and pupils travelling on dedicated services for children with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 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 expenditure of school transport scheme services in 2024 was over €512 m. It is estimated that an additional 100,000 children, above the current pupil numbers on transport, could be accommodated on the mainstream scheme by 2030. To achieve...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (1 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 schools funded by my department are classified as primary national schools. They are intended, in accordance with the provisions of rule 64(1) of the Rules for National...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The Summer Programme is an educational programme which is run during the summer months. Sometimes referred to as July Provision, the Summer Programme was established to support the educational provision for children with severe/profound general learning disability and children with Autism by extending the school year for four weeks annually, typically into the month of July. My...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The Summer Programme is an educational programme which is run during the summer months. Sometimes referred to as July Provision, the Summer Programme was established to support the educational provision for children with severe/profound general learning disability and children with Autism by extending the school year for four weeks annually, typically into the month of July. As a direct...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 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. Through the accelerated provision of additional special class and special school places over recent years, there are now just over 28,000 students enrolled in special classes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: Details of the 2025 Summer Programme were published on the 13th of February 2024. For this year’s programme, funding of €62 million was secured in Budget 2025 to ensure its continuance. Between 2021 to 2024, €40 million in funding had been allocated each year to the Summer Programme. The level of funding this year represents a 55% increase on the funding previously...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The National Council for Special Education acts in an advisory role to the Department of Education and Youth on the suitability of placements for children with special educational needs. Under the terms of the School Transport Scheme for Children with Special Educational Needs, the Department will consider the report of the Special Education Needs Organiser (SENO). School transport is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The government is committed to the provision of additional special school places for children with more complex educational needs. Over 300 new special school places are being provided for the coming 2025/2026 school year. Five new special schools are being established in addition to the eleven new special schools opened over the last few years. Special school capacity is also being expanded...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (1 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. My department works closely with the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) on the forward planning of new special classes and additional special school places. Building...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (1 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) has responsibility for coordinating and advising on the education provision for children with special educational needs,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The Education Plan 2025 outlines the Department’s key annual priorities and commits to driving a substantial, multifaceted agenda—including education and youth policy, school infrastructure, inspections, psychological supports, governance, reform, and parliamentary processes. With a large and complex workload, the plan focuses on delivering impactful reforms and initiatives this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 391 and 392 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. Through the accelerated provision of additional special class and special school places over recent years, there are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (1 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 needs assistants (SNAs) play a central role in the successful inclusion of students with additional and significant care needs in schools. They help ensure that these...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (1 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 NCSE actively encourage expressions of interest from schools to open special classes, and I appreciate and commend the efforts taken by boards of management in expressing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 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) has responsibility for coordinating and advising on the education provision for children with special educational needs,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 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) has responsibility for coordinating and advising on the education provision for children with special educational needs,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (1 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 NCSE actively encourage expressions of interest from schools to open special classes, and I appreciate and commend the efforts taken by boards of management in expressing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 403, 411, 412 and 413 together. The government is committed to the provision of additional special school places for children with more complex educational needs. Over 300 new special school places are being provided for the coming 2025/2026 school year. Five new special schools are being established in addition to the eleven new special schools opened...