An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2026-02-24
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

I said already during Leaders' Questions there will not be any reductions in special needs assistants in our schools in the school year beginning in September 2026. There will be increases, but there will not be any reductions in our schools. There will be well over 25,000 special needs assistants, which will be an increase of 8,700 since 2020. That is expansion. We will then have the redeployment scheme.

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