ANGER AT FUNDING REFUSAL FOR CORR NA MONA SCHOOL

Date Published: 19-Jun-2008

Connemara councillors have expressed anger at the Department of Educations refusal to fund accommodation for special needs students at Corr na Mona Secondary schoolThere is one special needs student currently attending Gairmscoil Fheichín Corr na Mona and another pupil is due to enrol in SeptemberThese students need toilet facilities adjacent to their classrooms but a request to fund the facilities has been turned down by the DepartmentAt a meeting of County Galway VEC this week councillors said Department cutbacks would affect the most vulnerable studentsCouncillor Seosamh O'Cuaig fears the cutbacks now mean other special needs students around the county will be deprived of essential facilitiesCouncillor O Cuaig also raised the issue at this weeks county council meeting and plans to get it discussed at a meeting with Department of Education officials at the end of the month