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Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Jul 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...section 3 is about. It is making sure that patrons and schools co-operate with the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, when they are consulted to open a new class. That is what the Bill, in essence, does. It is outside of the section 37A process. It is asking the board of schools to co-operate, ultimately, with the NCSE. As the Senator knows, that is the regular co-operation...

Seanad: Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Jul 2022)

Josepha Madigan: The reality is that, even if there is engagement, if the school does not agree to open a special class, the section 37A process kicks in.

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Josepha Madigan: Does Deputy Ó Ríordáin remember his behaviour towards me in the Convention Centre? I will not accept it.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Jul 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...so they can support the inclusion of all children particularly those with special educational needs (SEN). My Department recognises that the current range of supports in schools i.e. teaching and care does not on their own meet the needs of some children with special educational needs particularly children with complex needs in the areas of speech and language, communication, sensory...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Jul 2022)

Josepha Madigan: The NCSE has responsibility for planning and coordinating school supports for children with special educational needs including the allocation of SNAs and reviews. The Department does not have a role in making individual school determinations. The Special Needs Assistant (SNA) scheme is designed to provide schools with additional adult support staff who can assist children with...

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...to discuss this legislation and I have listened with interest to the contributions made by Members from all sides of the House. I believe almost 20 spoke. I appreciate that as I am sure does the Minister. As Minister of State with responsibility for special education and inclusion, I am committed to making a difference for students who have special educational needs as part of an...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ..., however, I cannot guarantee that. We hope the schools will volunteer. We prefer schools to volunteer rather than do it on the back of an order or a direction from me. In circumstances where that does not happen, we would have no option but to use section 37A. That is now truncated and streamlined through the new emergency legislation. However, schools will still have two...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...offer assistance and advice to the school. Parents may also contact their local SENO directly to discuss their child's special educational needs, using the contact details available on www.ncse.ie. My Department does not have a role in making individual school determinations. Accordingly your correspondence has been forwarded to the NCSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jun 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...available to offer assistance and advice to the school. Parents may also contact their local SENO directly to discuss their child's special educational needs, using the contact details available on www.ncse.ie. My Department does not have a role in making individual school determinations. Accordingly your correspondence has been forwarded to the NCSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jun 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...available to offer assistance and advice to the school. Parents may also contact their local SENO directly to discuss their child's special educational needs, using the contact details available on www.ncse.ie. My Department does not have a role in making individual school determinations. Accordingly your correspondence has been forwarded to the NCSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Jun 2022)

Josepha Madigan: The NCSE has responsibility for planning and coordinating school supports for children with special educational needs including the allocation of SNAs and reviews. The Department does not have a role in making individual school determinations. The Special Needs Assistant (SNA) scheme is designed to provide schools with additional adult support staff who can assist children with special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Jun 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...provided only on the basis of an assessment but where it is part of the application process, the Department would only receive information when an assessment is complete. Therefore, the Department does not have data on the number of special educational needs children awaiting an assessment for home tuition sanction, in the absence of a school place.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Jun 2022)

Josepha Madigan: The NCSE has responsibility for planning and coordinating school supports for children with special educational needs including the allocation of SNAs and reviews. My Department does not have a role in making individual school determinations. The Special Needs Assistant (SNA) scheme is designed to provide schools with additional adult support staff who can assist children with special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Jun 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...(EWO). While referrals are primarily received from schools, parents and other professionals can also make a referral. The Educational Welfare service provides a service to all children, and does not specifically collate school refusal information for children with special education needs. TESS Educational Welfare Officers take a supportive welfare-based approach working with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (21 Jun 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...and advice to the school. Parents may also contact their local SENO directly to discuss their child's special educational needs, using the contact details available on www.ncse.ie. My Department does not have a role in making individual school determinations. Accordingly your correspondence has been forwarded to the NCSE for direct reply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...teachers treat them in that manner. They are recruited specifically to assist schools in providing the necessary non-teaching services to pupils with special educational needs. The SNA contract does set out the duties but, as I said, there can be flexibility around that. The most important thing is that the children's additional needs receive the support from the SNA and the SNA is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...allocations have not changed since 2019. However, approximately 1,000 extra SNAs were given in 2020 and also an extra 1,000 in 2021. The exceptional review process is there if a school feels it does not have sufficient allocation. With regard to the Ukrainians, we now have 7,000 Ukrainian children in schools and part of the unified allocation under the special education teaching, SET,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...industrial relations mechanisms and the Department is engaging with the union on these claims as well. The fact that one public service grade has access to certain leave or other conditions of employment, however, does not automatically mean other grades should. Each claim is examined on its own merits and in the context of the impact on the system of increased leave in respect of cost....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...reviewed by the Department, with a view to seeing what further training programmes we can introduce. It is important to emphasise that this is the first one that has ever been done in UCD. That does not mean we cannot have training programmes in other universities or further and higher education venues. The NCSE recommended that it be at level 5 of the national qualifications framework,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...to their SNA. That can happen in post-primary, and again that depends on the level of need of a child. The role of an SNA is as important in post-primary as primary schools. The qualification does not necessarily change. Whether the same SNA works in a primary or post-primary school depends on his or her contract and whether he or she is moving or changing roles or was on a panel at...