Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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623. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost in 2024 to recruit three extra WTE Behaviour Practitioners for National Council for Special Education. [1352/24]

Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) employ Behaviour Practitioners to enable, support and promote the full inclusion, participation and wellbeing of all students in school and community activities by establishing and enhancing socially significant behaviours.

Their work is focused on assisting schools to:

• promote universal positive behaviour approaches,
• prevent and plan for behaviours that impact learning and prevent and
• plan and respond to behaviours of concern using The NCSE Behaviour Support Framework.