Emer Currie (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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942. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether a school (details supplied) will definitively be added to the list of Dublin 15 national schools as it is situated in the Fingal County Council administrative area, is within the D15 electoral area and requires consistent access to services of the NCSE and the local D15 SENO. [46459/25]

Michael Moynihan (Cork North-West, Fianna Fail)
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This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their full potential and the Programme for Government makes a number of commitments to deliver on this objective.

407 new special classes have been sanctioned for the 2025/26 school year. Of these 103 are in County Dublin, 81 at primary and 22 at post-primary level. One of these new classes is in the school referred to by the Deputy and will being to 3,741 the number of special classes in operation nationwide and 705 the number of special classes in County Dublin. There are also 42 special schools in County Dublin with approximately 2,700 students enrolled. This includes two new special schools for the 2025/26 school year located in Lucan and Belmayne.

To support school provision planning and effectively analyse demographic data, while accounting for significant local and regional variations in trends and enrolment projections, the Department of Education and Youth divides the country into 314 Local School Planning Areas (LSPAs). There are 5 LSPAs that incorporate, to varying degrees, the Dublin 15 area and within these 5 LSPAs there are 47 schools - 32 mainstream primary schools, 13 mainstream post-primary schools and 2 special schools supported by the NCSE. The school referred to by the Deputy is included among a local school planning area that includes Chapelizod, Castleknock and adjacent Dublin 15 areas.