Forced to look at pupils’ needs on ‘case-by-case basis’

For primary school principal Michael Daly, news of more cuts to special needs provision appears to impact like an axe taken to the household budget.

The 115 resource teaching hours his school should have will instead be almost 30 hours less from next September.

These 86 hours will have to be divided among pupils with a range of disabilities at Glasheen Boys’ National School in Cork City.