Call for increased investment in special education
21 April 2025
The country's largest teacher trade union has called for funding for the full equipping of special classrooms and ancillary sensory and play spaces to be guaranteed to schools and to be made available before a special class is established.
As schools prepare to open an unprecedented number of new special classes this coming September, the Irish National Teachers' Organisation has also called for increased investment in special education teaching and SNA posts.
The primary teachers' union began its annual congress in Co Galway and the union will publish a policy paper containing its recommendations around special education.
Published by RTÉ.ie, 21st April 2025