Questions on Promised Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2021-05-20
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Réada Cronin (SF), Kildare North

I want to raise the employment of behavioural analysts who, as with other key members of staff in education, are being taken over by the Department of Education and brought into the public sector system. The Labour Court has been clear that the Department has to engage but the Department is of another view. I have received responses to parliamentary questions to this effect. Meanwhile, Saplings Special School in Kill in my constituency of Kildare North is extremely worried that it will lose its behavioural analyst, who has been a central figure in the lives of the children for more than a decade. Another 12 analysts are in this employment limbo. I am sure the Minister agrees this is a life-saving service for the children. These children have special needs and autism. The behavioural analysts have a right to secure employment.

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Sitting date: 2021-05-20