Seanad debates
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Order of Business
11:00 am
Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael)
Last week we had a very timely and lively debate in the House on special needs. At that time the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, in a scripted speech accused me of making a political football of children with special needs. Prior to that, last spring in Leinster House he said he would go public on me if I said that all children with special needs could not be mainstreamed. On 9 December he threatened to sue me personally if I continued to make remarks on special needs cuts. My question to the Leader is as follows.
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