Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers said the government prioritised housing and infrastructure during the last budget.

“They need to treat the special education crisis like it’s a house on fire,” Adrienne Doyle Whelan said.

Kerry TD Danny Healy-Rae has been criticised for linking autism to "a lack of some vitamins" in the Dáil

Charlotte Cahill, whose daughter Cyra is autistic, said she believes the lack of school places for children with additional needs is getting worse

Cara Darmody (14) will tell a ‘monster meeting’ on Thursday that she will campaign internationally on the way Ireland is failing children.

The Taoiseach said that finance should ‘never be a constraint’ in hiring staff to provide therapies for children with additional needs.

It brings the number of special classes in County Roscommon to 48