Emer Currie (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are going around in circles on an emergency works application that ticks all of those boxes not today, not yesterday, but from September 2022. Bureaucracy is contributing to the delay. We have a problem and it needs to be fixed. Regarding access for children with additional needs, the school has been proactive in outlining that it wants an additional class. It has the space for an additional autism class. It needs an additional mainstream classroom as well. It has engaged with the Department of Education along the same timeline. We thought we were getting somewhere last July but the school has not heard anything since November and we know there is a shortage of places for children who want and need a place in a senior national school for September 2024. There needs to be a faster turnaround by the Department of Education for these emergency works.