Cormac Devlin
Question:391. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Education and Youth the status of a case (details supplied); if a review of the case can be undertaken; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [69212/25]
View answerTuesday, 9 December 2025
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The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is, in the first instance, the primary body responsible for the matter the Deputy has raised. I will arrange for your query to be forwarded to the NCSE for their attention and direct reply.
Deputies are also welcome to raise such queries with the NCSE directly through their dedicated Oireachtas query line at oireachtasqueries@ncse.ie.
The NCSE advise that there are four schools closing in June 2025 and consequently the special need assistant (SNA) posts have been removed. No other SNA post will be removed from any other schools for the 2025/26 school year.
While the NCSE has identified at this time approximately 70 posts in schools where the care needs have reduced, in preparation for the SNA Redeployment scheme currently in development it is not intended that these posts will be removed from a school’s overall allocation until the end of the 2025/26 academic year.
This will allow for the SNAs involved to continue to support the school community for an additional year at which point the recently announced SNA re-deployment scheme will become fully operational and available to the affected SNAs.