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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (18 Apr 2024)

Thomas Byrne: ...is that people are told to hunt throughout the county, should not be said. Students with additional needs, need to receive an education appropriate to their needs. That is an ongoing priority for the Government and indeed for me and my colleagues, the Ministers, Deputies Norma Foley and Hildegarde Naughton. It is a priority to ensure that all children have an appropriate school...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (18 Apr 2024)

Réada Cronin: I thank the Minister of State. I get the parliamentary questions replies all the time. I send them out to the parents who have children waiting for places and they tell me they are sick to the teeth of the replies. I am embarrassed to send them. They call them copy-and-paste replies. The school place action committee in Clane is a force to be reckoned with. It tells me that it sees...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (18 Apr 2024)

Thomas Byrne: ..., €2.7 billion is being spent on special education, which is a massive increase in recent years. This will allow this year for the opening of up to 400 new special classes in mainstream schools and 300 additional special school places including in County Kildare and indeed in my own county on the Kildare border as well. I am confident this issue will be resolved. The officials in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (18 Apr 2024)

Réada Cronin: ...freisin. Ar a laghad do ghlac sé leis an bpost nuair a dhiúltaigh Fine Gael dó. I am not sure what the Irish for stepping into the breach is but maith thú. As I hope you know, there has been much talk and expectation of a second autism class opening in Scoil Mhuire secondary school in Clane. Parents have been told that the funds and staff have been approved and...