Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)
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256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the length of time a special needs child, who is in a special class in a mainstream school, can stay in a post primary school if they have reached 18 years of age (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7739/14]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that the standard maximum period of second-level education is six years. The circumstances in which an individual pupil may repeat a year at post-primary level, and the arrangements that apply in this regard, are set out in my Departments Circular M02/95, which is available on my Department's website www.education.ie.

The terms of the Circular apply to all pupils alike, regardless of whether or not they have special educational needs.