State pledges an extra 975 SNAs by September

The Government has committed to putting 975 additional special needs assistants in place from September.

The announcement of extra support staff came as the Impact union announced it is to ballot SNAs for industrial action after accusing Government of leaving staff with no guarantee of a job before the summer.

Questioning the Taoiseach in the Dáil, Mary Lou McDonald said the Government is over a month behind in allocating SNAs for the coming term which she said is causing “distress”.