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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 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. Through...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Apr 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: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 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: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 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. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Apr 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I wish to thank the Deputy for raising this matter. I also want to thank the NCSE and the ESRI for this comprehensive research document. I welcome its publication as it relates to an area that is a priority for this government. I note that it includes a number of recommendations and findings that are relevant to a number of different sections in my Department. These findings and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Apr 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The development of the National Therapy Support Service is a standalone commitment in the programme for government and is a cross-department initiative. 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 within the education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Apr 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. Of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 Apr 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Deputies for their responses and for their sincerity. The written reply was circulated to them, so I will not waste the time of the Dáil by reading it into the record. The position is obvious. The Department is continuing to liaise with the school authorities to find a solution. I take the point that a permanent site is the solution and that the prefabs should not be seen...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Scoileanna Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta (2 Apr 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Senator for her question. While I might be able to bluff my way through with some Irish, it is of great embarrassment to me that I am unable to respond to the Senator in Irish. Tá brón orm. I have an official statement from the Department. I will refer to the Senator's questions at the end of my contribution. The Department is fully supportive and remains...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Scoileanna Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta (2 Apr 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I will take the questions the Senator has posed back to the Department. It is greatly important. This is a major change in direction for Synge Street CBS. It is all-encompassing because there are the teachers who have been there for many years and done great work. This is a major new departure for them. What we will need will be clear guidance. Obviously, with this starting in September...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 Apr 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Deputies for raising this hugely important issue. I will outline what we are doing before I go into the substantive issue. The Department and the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, continue to support children with special educational needs. I want to stress that enabling students with additional needs to receive an education appropriate to their needs is an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (2 Apr 2025)

Michael Moynihan: My department invests over €180 million annually to provide additional supports to almost 1,200 schools in the DEIS programme which supports approximately 260,000 students. This programme is targeted at schools with the highest levels of concentrated disadvantage. Schools that were included in the most recent expansion of the programme in 2022 were those with the highest levels of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Apr 2025)

Michael Moynihan: On 16 January 2024, The National Council for Special Education published its policy advice paper on special schools and classes entitled “An Inclusive education for an Inclusive society”. This follows a request in October 2018, by the then Minister for Education and Skills to advise on the educational provision for students in special schools and classes and to make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Apr 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 126 and 127 together. The primary responsibility for the education of all children, including those with special education need in our education system is the class or subject teacher. The Special Education Teacher allocations provide additional teaching support for students with special educational needs enrolled in mainstream classes in primary and post...

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

Michael Moynihan: Under the Assistive Technology Scheme, as set out in my Department’s Circular 0010/2013, funding is provided to schools towards the cost of computers and specialist equipment, which are required for educational purposes. All equipment provided under this scheme supports children with more complex disabilities who, in order to access the school curriculum, require essential...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Apr 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. Through...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Apr 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. Through...

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

Michael Moynihan: The development of the National Therapy Support Service is a standalone commitment in the programme for government and is a cross-department initiative. It will ensure that a coordinated approach will be employed to increase college places for health and social care professionals. While the provision of clinical therapy supports to children is the responsibility of the HSE, it is this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Apr 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. As you...

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

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 383 and 419 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) has responsibility for coordinating and advising on the education...