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‹ Order of Business Learning-support allocation model
Summary
Senator Moran seeks an early debate on delays to a fairer special-education allocation model, highlighting children with mild Down’s syndrome who are not receiving resource teaching hours.
Yes. Children with a mild learning disability who began primary school in September 2013 - only a few months after the NCSE publication - will now be obliged to wait at least three years before the introduction of a newer, more equitable allocation model. It is not right that children with Down's syndrome with a mild diagnosis are not receiving resource teaching hours. I heard of one such case just today.
Comment on this
I ask that the Minister come into the House for a debate on this issue at the earliest opportunity.