Row as more special needs posts face axe [Independent.ie]
- Published: 28 February 2010
EDUCATION Minister Batt O'Keeffe is warning that more special needs assistants will be axed in schools -- on top of 200 positions already lost.
But he is defending the cuts by claiming that any child needing an SNA will get one.
"All that is being done is to remove posts where the children have left or their care needs have diminished," said Mr O'Keeffe. But the reduction has angered the trade union IMPACT, which says the 211 posts were lost between February and December.
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