Cabinet accused of stunt on Down Syndrome children resources

Access to resource teachers for children with Down syndrome should be granted immediately, instead of being kicked to a committee where it will stay until 2015, according to Independent TD Finian McGrath.

Proposing legislation to the Dáil that aims to improve education for children with Down syndrome in mainstream schools, he said there is “no time for delay” because students are continuing to lose out.

The Government had agreed not to vote down the bill, but instead refer it to the Oireachtas Education Committee. However, it was accused of a “stunt” by “pretending to go along with it” while leaving parents to wait as it draws out the process further.