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

In Dublin 15, it has been parents and educators who have provided the leadership when it comes to special education. Danu Community Special School has a large number of autism classes. It was driven forward by the Dublin 15 autism group. The common application system, which is where, for the first time, a family only has to apply in one location and that application is sent for autism classes across 18 primary schools was driven forward by the Dublin 15 Principals' Network and Helena Trench in particular. That is why it is so frustrating that these groups gave a huge amount of time to the task force to bring forward these recommendations, which, as the Minister of State said, were put forward in the context of Dublin 15 but have city-wide and national application as well, have not been brought into the public light yet. It is urgent that the report is published. I urge him to do it as quickly as possible and to respect the work that was put into this report.

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Sitting date: 2026-04-23