Campaigners for children with additional needs wants EU to 'shame Ireland into action'

Rebecca O'Riordan: 'The Government spent over €27,000 dragging our then two-year-old daughter into court, only for them not to contest her case. She is seven now and still waiting. Like so many children up and down the country, we are still waiting for supports that may never come.'

Families waiting for assessments and appropriate school places will next week ask the European Commission to investigate Ireland's failure to meet its legal obligations to children with additional needs.

It comes as the number of children waiting nationally for an assessment of need is expected to hit 25,000 by the end of the year.