Special Educational Needs
Dail Éireann — 2022-05-12
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Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (LAB), Dublin Bay North

It is mid-May and the special needs assistant, SNA, allocations have yet to be published. SNAs across the country speak regularly about the lack of respect shown to them by the Department of Education. It is hard not to agree with them when it comes to the middle of May and the allocations for next September are not available. They must plan for their own lives and planning is required for the young people they work with, as well as their schools. Everything is still up in the air in the absence of the publication of the allocations.

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Sitting date: 2022-05-12