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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Moynihan: This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their 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. The NCSE has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jun 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. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The policy of the Department of Education is to allocate supports to recognised schools to cater for the needs of pupils with special educational needs in an educational context. While the provision of clinical therapy supports to children is the responsibility of the HSE, it is this government’s ambition, and as outlined in the Programme for Government, to extend therapy supports,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Moynihan: This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their 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. Budget...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Moynihan: This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their 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. The NCSE has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The NCSE have advised my Department that they do not intend to sanction a new special class at the school referred to by the Deputy at this time as there is sufficient provision available in other new special classes opening. If the NCSE were to consider this school for a new special class, my Department can then consider the accommodation needs of the school. The department works closely...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The National Council For Special Education has sanctioned 399 of the 400 new special classes for the 2025/26 school year. The NCSE is confident that this new provision when added to the existing provision will meet the known demand for the 2025/26 school year. This year the NCSE focused on medium and larger primary schools with available accommodation and no existing special class to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Moynihan: Details of this year’s School-based Summer Programme were published on the 13th of February 2025. Funding of €62 million was secured in Budget 2025 to ensure the continuance of the €40 million annual investment that has been provided for since 2021. As in previous years, all of the funding will be utilised to meet the needs of our most vulnerable children. All schools...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Moynihan: This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their potential and the Programme for Government makes a number of commitments to deliver on this objective. I know the central role that our special needs assistants (SNAs) play in the successful inclusion of students with additional and significant care needs in schools to enable them to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Moynihan: This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their potential and the Programme for Government makes a number of commitments to deliver on this objective. I know the central role that our SNAs play in the successful inclusion of students with additional and significant care needs in schools to enable them to achieve their best outcomes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Moynihan: This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their potential and the Programme for Government makes a number of commitments to deliver on this objective. I know the central role that our special needs assistants (SNAs) play in the successful inclusion of students with additional and significant care needs in schools to enable them to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Moynihan: Each school is provided with Special Education Teacher (SET) hours to support children who have been identified with an additional learning need via the continuum of support framework. There are over 14,700 SETs supporting mainstream classes in the 2024/25 school year, which is an increase of over 1,000 since the end of the 2021 school year. This is the highest number of SET teachers ever in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The PQ does not fall under the remit of the Department of Education and Youth. – the appointment of a speech and language therapist to a school for the duration of a period of leave is more appropriate to department of Health or the HSE.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Admissions (12 Jun 2025)

Michael Moynihan: There are a couple of things there. We understand the challenges that are ahead of us in terms of post-primary education because of the information we have at primary level. The Minister, Deputy McEntee, and myself are acutely aware of it and are working extremely hard on it. One of the things we agreed very early on was to bring back the date from 1 February to 1 October to give better...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Admissions (12 Jun 2025)

Michael Moynihan: On the therapists within the schools, that is being rolled out from September into the special schools. The plan is for the special schools in the first instance and then on to the special classes. They will be great enablers to provide the best possible outcomes for children with additional needs throughout the education system. An awful lot of work has gone into it over the last while....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects (12 Jun 2025)

Michael Moynihan: Yes, the submission has been with the Department since March. These reviews take time. I do not have a specific date for the Deputy but I will endeavour to get that information to her as a matter of priority. Both the Minister, Deputy McEntee, and I will follow up to ensure that it is done as speedily as possible. I will endeavour to come back to Deputy Connolly with that timeline and a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects (12 Jun 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I will come back to the Deputy on it in writing. The documentation submitted in March, as I understand it, is quite a detailed document and involves a lot of work to make sure it is properly gone through. I give the Deputy a commitment that we will work to make sure it goes through the Department as speedily as possible, and we will come back to her in writing.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Education Needs (12 Jun 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Deputy for the question. The 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 co-ordinating and advising on education provision for children with...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Education Needs (12 Jun 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I take the point. I also met with the INTO yesterday in regard to its pre-budget submissions. It outlined the challenges in respect of SENCOs. The provision of special education has developed extraordinarily throughout the country over recent years. We have to pay tribute to school leadership and the school communities, be they teachers, SNAs or the other support people who make that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Admissions (12 Jun 2025)

Michael Moynihan: In respect of special classes and the huge issue of provision, the Government is totally committed to the provision of special classes and special needs places to allow children to grow to their full potential. Almost 400 special classes have been sanctioned for this year. Of these, 287 are at primary level and 112 are at post-primary level. In April of this year, the Department wrote...