Special Educational Needs
Dail Éireann — 2026-04-23
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Roderic O'Gorman (GP), Dublin West

There is real anger about the fact that this report that was handed over to the Department in July still has not been published. The Minister was involved in the establishment of this task force, so I do not need to go into the entire history. Before the 2024 general election, when there was a real crisis in Dublin 15 about lack of places for autism classes and in special schools, the Government, which I was a part of, made a decision to establish the task force to address the issue. The Minister of State set out the huge amount of work that was done by State bodies, but particularly by the representatives of parents and schools in the area. The recommendations are relevant to Dublin 15, but they are also relevant to the wider country. It is not good enough that we still do not have a date for the publication. I thought the Minister of State was going to give me some news there, but we need a specific date for publication and an understanding of how the Department is going to respond to each of the recommendations.

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Sitting date: 2026-04-23