Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris has announced as a âmajor priorityâ transition planning for students with learning disabilities to move into further education and employment.
The project, to be completed by September, will also include a âmapping exerciseâ of existing facilities and examples of good practice for further and higher education.
A national access plan for students into further education after secondary school is also under way.
Mr Harris said in the Dáil that too often the âdiscussion is too narrowâ for pupils with disabilities when they leave school.
âItâs around what health service are we going to provide somebody with post-school, not what would this person like to do, what skill would they like, what job would they like, what college would they like to go to,â he said.
Eamon Ryan insists rents can be reduced in investor apartment stamp duty row Green party leader faces trenchant opposition criticism in Dáil on housing decision
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Green Party leader Eamon Ryan has insisted his party is committed to apartment living and ownership as he rejected opposition claims of abandoning young people in Dublin by excluding apartments from stamp duty increases on investment funds.
The Minister for Climate Change and Communications said the Government agreed they would “come back” to the issue through the Affordable Housing Bill, currently going through the Seanad to assess what further measures could be taken to deliver on that and create “high quality urban living”.