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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (24 Apr 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: With respect, that is the theory. The practice, unfortunately, is different. I understand that Ministers will be told by their senior civil servants that everything is grand, but the fact is that we are being told by people on the ground that it is not grand. I will give an example of the theory and the practice colliding. A principal sent me a letter they received from the National...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (24 Apr 2024)
Hildegarde Naughton: I will contact the NCSE about the review process if it is overly onerous and will give it that feedback. There is significant consultation with all the stakeholders - management, teachers, schools - right across the country in order to ensure that this review process is up to date and that every year we get the correct data in order that this is efficient. The reviews coming back from the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (24 Apr 2024)
Special Educational Needs
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (24 Apr 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Education is the great leveller. Education should be an opportunity to give every child the ability to reach his or her potential. It is so important that, as a country, we make sure we have equality within the education system for pupils themselves and for parents. The information that I am getting back from a large number of schools at the moment is that there is a crisis first of all in...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (24 Apr 2024)
Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue and giving me the opportunity to set out the importance of the special education teacher allocation in supporting children with special educational needs in mainstream schools. At the outset, it is very important to state that there will be more special education teachers in our schools in September 2024 than ever before - an increase of 1,000...