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Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Pauline Tully: I acknowledge my co-proposer, Deputy Guirke, and Deputies Andrews, Collins and Ó Ríordáin for speaking in support of this Bill. I am disappointed the Minister of State has proposed an amendment to delay the Bill for 12 months. Children with additional needs have waited long enough. They have waited for almost 20 years for these supports which were promised under the EPSEN...

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Amendment put.

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Chris Andrews: I acknowledge the work Deputies Tully and Guirke have put into this important Bill. All children who need an individual educational plan should get an individual educational plan. The EPSEN Act was enacted in 2004 to provide education in an inclusive mainstream setting. That is unfortunately not happening. There is a situation where neurodiverse children are bussed out of their community...

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Josepha Madigan: I thank Deputies Tully, Guirke, Joan Collins, Ó Ríordáin and Andrews for their contributions. I will briefly mention some of the issues that were addressed. Regarding the EPSEN Act, which most Deputies raised, it is important to recognise that our system looks very different from how it did in 2004. The most obvious development is the number of people working in the school...

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Johnny Guirke: The Joint Committee on Disability Matters has called for the commencement of the sections of the 2004 Act that confer statutory rights on the child, including commencement of the statutory entitlement to educational assessment, consequent development of a statutory individual educational plan and a detailed educational service to be implemented on foot of this plan. It is disappointing that...

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Josepha Madigan: There is a review.

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time on Wednesday, 22 March 2023.

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 5.31 p.m. go dtí 2 p.m., Dé Máirt, an 21 Márta 2023. The Dáil adjourned at at 5.31 p.m. until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 21 March 2023.

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Josepha Madigan: Disability.

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Josepha Madigan: Disability.

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: It is education.

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: I will resubmit the questions when we come back after the break next week. There is a distance between what we are hearing officially and what is happening on the ground. Parents feel that the 40-plus children put into that special school were just put into a building and did not get the wraparound services they need. There is an occupational therapy room in the school but no occupational...

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I welcome this legislation and congratulate those who brought it forward. The Labour Party is happy to support the Bill. I have a history with IEPs. In my former life as a school teacher, we used to be delighted to get to the point of an IEP because it was a bit of a struggle to get resources. I taught in a particularly disadvantaged part of Dublin. We used to be forced to get...

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: I will begin by reading into the record the contents of the Bill that Deputies Tully, Guirke and Ó Laoghaire have put forward. It reads as follows: An Act to amend the Education Act 1998 to grant additional functions to the Inspectorate to examine and report to the Minister on the prevalence and standard of individual educational plans for children with special educational needs on an...

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Josepha Madigan: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That" and substitute the following: "Dáil Éireann resolves that the Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022 be deemed to be read a second time this day twelve months, to allow for the expansion of the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) and the attendant services...

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (9 Mar 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I will make a couple of points, the first of which is that I have no doubt the Deputy has engaged with Clare County Council on this particular matter. I suggest that he sends a proposal into the Minister to get a formal response on the particular issue of Carrigaholt. That is his prerogative as a Deputy representing the constituency. I will take the matters he highlighted back to the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (9 Mar 2023)

Michael McNamara: I will do that. I thank the Minister of State.

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Pauline Tully: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." According to census 2016, the level of education completed by disabled people was substantially lower than that of non-disabled people. It reports that 13.7% of disabled persons aged 15 to 50 have completed no higher than primary-level education compared with 4.2% of the general population. As we can see from this statistic, many...

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Johnny Guirke: I thank Deputy Tully for bringing forward this Bill. The EPSEN Act was passed in 2004 to ensure that children with additional education needs could be educated in an inclusive setting, and that all children would have the right to be educated in a mainstream school unless it would not be the best interest of the child or the effective provision of education for other children in mainstream...