The school provides education for children with moderate and severe learning disabilities across Kildare and west Wicklow.
Concerns have continued to be raised in relation to conditions at St Anne's Special School in the Curragh.
The school provides education for children with moderate and severe learning disabilities across Kildare and west Wicklow.
Parents have raised concerns about the conditions for the students, wheelchair accessibility and space, as well as bathroom facilities and delays to a long-promised new school.
They also allege that a lack of funding has resulted in educational supports being diverted to keep the lights on and pay the bills.
St Anne's is included in the list of schools in the recently published plan from the Department of Education who received planning permission in 2022 and will expire in March 2027 if construction does not commence.
In a letter written by the St Anne's Special School Parents Association and seen by Kfm news, they said that the "Department declined some repair works as St. Anne’s and that the plan for construction "is currently within the detailed design stage 2b of a new school building".
They added that "the delivery of the new school building has been significantly delayed and has been at the detailed design stage for a very long
period".
He requested for the Taoiseach follow up with the Minister for Education.
He outlined that "more than a dozen" wheelchair users have no access to inclusive equipment on the schoolgrounds during break times.
Deputy Wall also mentioned that there was only one accessible bathroom for 40 students.
On social media he said that "we need more than words, we need to see shovels in the ground".
Speaking on Kildare Today, a parent of one of the students, Nuala Henry said that the current school isn't fit for purpose:
"The prefabs are modern and they're lovely and they're clean, but they're not fit for purpose. The children have complex needs and as it is, there's only one accessible toilet facility for up to 80% of our students, which most are incontinent."
"It's really not inclusive or good enough for our children."
The full interview can be heard below:
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