Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2021-02-04
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Darren O'Rourke (SF), Meath East

Stepping Stones School is a special school for children with autism and complex needs in Kilcloon, County Meath. Its five classrooms are less than half the size of standard primary school classrooms and are housed in dilapidated, pre-fabricated buildings. Walls are paper-thin, to the extent that they cannot support wall-mounted hand sanitiser. The floors have rotted, been replaced and are rotting again. Technical assessments on the need for a new school building were eventually conducted by the Department, but nothing more. I ask the Tánaiste to contact his Government colleagues, the Minister for Education and the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, and to ask them to engage directly with the staff and parents at Stepping Stones on this issue as a matter of urgency.

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Sitting date: 2021-02-04