Special Educational Needs
Dail Éireann — 2024-02-13
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Gary Gannon (SD), Dublin Central

Will the Minister for Education outline how the contents of her Department’s Circular 0002/2024 provides for additional therapeutic, behavioural and psychological supports for schools, given the current lack thereof, which remains a major barrier to fully inclusive education, and will she provide an explanation for the reduction of allocated special education teaching, SET, hours for schools throughout the country? That was the question I submitted a week and a half ago. Given the information that has been sent to schools in the past week, I appreciate that this has become more intensified still. Will the Minister outline the justification for this decision and will she assuage schools of the fears they have expressed to us in recent days?
I believe Deputy Ó Ríordáin also wishes to come in on this.

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Sitting date: 2024-02-13