Five children with special needs bring High Court actions over access to education
09 May 2025
Four children with autism and a child with a severe intellectual disability have brought separate High Court actions over the Minister for Education’s alleged failure to provide them access to education.
One of the children, an eight-year-old boy with autism, has never attended school.
On Thursday, the children’s counsel Joe Jeffers SC, appearing with Brendan Hennessy BL and instructed by Healy Law, told Ms Justice Mary Rose Gearty the cases were “urgent”. The judge granted permission to the children’s lawyers to bring the judicial review proceedings.
None of the children can be identified, by order of the court.
Published by The Irish Times, 9th May 2025