Special school principals from across Ireland have called for the Department of Education to take charge of the return of therapists to schools amid ongoing frustration at the current HSE model.

'Why should a student with additional needs in North Cork be forced to commute for up to three hours a day potentially?'

The Dáil is expected to hear calls this evening for the Government to publish data it holds on the number of children who do not have an appropriate school place for this September.