Special Educational Needs

Wednesday, 8 July 2026

Questions (102)

Emer Currie

Question:

102. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on summer provision for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51970/26]

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Written answers

Minister of State at the Department of Education and Youth

Details of the 2026 Summer Programme were communicated to all schools on the 6th May 2026.

All schools have been offered the opportunity to run a school-based programme for children with the most complex special educational needs and those at risk of educational disadvantage.

Where a school does not intend to run a school-based programme or there is no place on the programme for an eligible child, schools were invited to make an application for the home-based programme.

On making an application for the home-based programme, both schools and parents received acknowledgement emails which outlined that decisions regarding a student's placement on the programme would be communicated after the school-based applications had been reviewed.

Department officials have confirmed that sanction letters for the home-based programme commenced issuing on the 18th June 2026 and a decision letter in respect of the pupil in question issued on 20th June 2026. Having liaised directly with the family concerned, the decision letter was reissued again.