128. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Education given her Department’s recent decision to reduce the criteria for allocating special education teaching hours from five to three for the upcoming academic year, thereby excluding factors such as student gender and the complexity of individual needs, if she will conduct an immediate policy review to assess the impact of these changes on the adequacy and fairness of resource distribution; if she will provide a timeline for this review and detail how her Department plans to engage with stakeholders, including teachers' unions and special education experts, to ensure that the allocation model remains equitable and responsive to the actual needs of students with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16182/25]

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128. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Education given her Department’s recent decision to reduce the criteria for allocating special education teaching hours from five to three for the upcoming academic year, thereby excluding factors such as student gender and the complexity of individual needs, if she will conduct an immediate policy review to assess the impact of these changes on the adequacy and fairness of resource distribution; if she will provide a timeline for this review and detail how her Department plans to engage with stakeholders, including teachers' unions and special education experts, to ensure that the allocation model remains equitable and responsive to the actual needs of students with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16182/25]

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