Rally denounces cuts in special needs provision [IrishTimes]
- Published: 15 September 2011
PEOPLE PROTESTING against cuts in the number of special needs assistants (SNAs) and in resource teachers’ hours gathered again outside the Dáil yesterday.
Some 300 parents, teachers, children and community representatives marched from the Central Bank in Dublin to the Dáil gates, where a similar protest took place in July.
Many of those partaking in yesterday’s march expressed frustration that no progress had been made since the last demonstration.
“I think view has even hardened at this stage. They are quite determined to push through with these cuts which are setting us back 25 years in the educational system,” said Philip Mullen, assistant general secretary of the Impact trade union.
“I’m not sure where we go from here – we will just keep up the fight to continue to lobby for this. Our own internal research would show that there is no major saving in what the Government is doing – that if our children ultimately end up back in special education that they will cost just as much.”
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