Departmental Administrative Arrangements
Dail Éireann — 2025-03-04
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Ruth Coppinger (PBP), Dublin West

It has been a year since the fateful referendum on disability, where disabled people chose to organise against that referendum to bring home the State's responsibility. What has the Taoiseach done in that year? I will just mention my own local area because of time constraints. Danu special school, the only special school in all of Dublin West, promised places to students for September 2024. Those students are still sitting at home right now. They were meant to start school last September but the building work has not started. This is what is happening with the Taoiseach's Government. It is pretending that places exist and the buildings have not even been built. There are no buildings, teachers or SNAs. I checked and a soil site investigator went there for a little visit yesterday. There is still no sign of those buildings. When will those children with intellectual disabilities and autism start school?

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Sitting date: 2025-03-04