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Enacted Dáil
No. 34 of 2003

Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Bill 2003

Public bill · Government · Presented

The Bill would make education and support services for children with disabilities enforceable rights, including assessments, individual education plans, appropriate teaching and related health services. It would promote inclusive education where suitable, give parents a central role in decisions, require schools and health boards to work together, and create a National Council for Special Education to oversee provision. Parents could challenge inadequate plans or services through a mediation-focused appeals process, while schools would have to admit children designated to them and receive the resources needed to support them.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to provide, having regard to the common good, for each of the following, namely, to make further provision for the education of people with disabilities, to provide that people with disabilities shall have the same right to avail of, and benefit from, appropriate education as do their peers who do not have disabilities, to assist children with disabilities to leave school with the skills necessary to participate, to the level of their capacity, in an inclusive way in the social and economic activities of society and to live independent and fulfilled lives, to provide for consultation with parents of children with disabilities in relation to the education of those children, for those purposes to establish a body to be known as an Chomhairle Náisiúnta um Oideachas Speisialta or in the English language the National Council for Special Education and to define its functions, to confer certain functions on health boards in relation to the education of people with disabilities, to enable certain decisions made in relation to the education of people with disabilities to be the subject of an appeal to an appeals board and to provide for related matters

Last updated 16 April 2018

Sponsor
  • Minister for Education and Science Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages.
    Seanad
  • Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed).
    Seanad
  • Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed).
    Seanad
  • Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed).
    Seanad
  • Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Bill 2003: Committee Stage.
    Seanad
  • Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed).
    Seanad
  • Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed).
    Seanad
  • Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Bill 2003: Second Stage.
    Seanad
  • Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Report Stage (Resumed).
    Dáil
  • Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage.
    Dáil
  • Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Report Stage (Resumed).
    Dáil
  • Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Order for Report Stage.
    Dáil
  • Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Report Stage.
    Dáil
  • Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed).
    SELECT COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
  • Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed).
    SELECT COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
  • Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed).
    SELECT COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
  • Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed).
    SELECT COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
  • Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Committee Stage.
    SELECT COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
  • Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed).
    Dáil
  • Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Referral to Select Committee.
    Dáil
  • Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed).
    Dáil
  • Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed).
    Dáil
  • Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Order for Second Stage.
    Dáil
  • Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Second Stage.
    Dáil
  • Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Presentations.
    JOINT COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
  • Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Presentations.
    JOINT COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
  • Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Presentations.
    JOINT COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND SCIENCE

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