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More than 18 per cent of Galway students are absent from school 20 days or more per year, according to a report released by the National Education Welfare Board.

Two Galway Fine Gael representatives will this weekend take on the gruelling challenge of cycling 780km from Dinard in northern France to Lourdes in the foothills of the Pyrenees in the hopes of raising more than €250,000 for young people with special needs.

Anti-social behaviour is having a huge impact on residents in local authority housing estates and action must be taken immediately to protect those affected, according to Senator Nicky McFadden.

The needs of the most disadvantaged students in local second-level schools are not being taken seriously by the Government, Galway West’s Fine Gael Seanad Spokesperson for Education has claimed.

Moving children with special needs into mainstream school classes is not only a bad move educationally, it will cost the State dearly, a local politician has warned.

A Fine Gael proposal to expand the Work Placement Programme to include 2,000 teaching graduate placements in primary and secondary schools from September has been described as a “win-win” scheme.

Proposed Government cuts in education will have an adverse impact on future examination results.

Fine Gael Seanad spokesperson for Social and Family Affairs Nicky McFadden, has said findings by the Inspectorate of Mental Health Services that a number of psychiatric hospitals, including St Loman’s in Mullingar, are ‘unfit for human habitation’ are harrowing beyond belief.