Save Our SNAs Ireland

22/07/2026

Yesterday the campaign met with An Taoiseach Michael Martin and Deputy Barry Heneghan to discuss the crisis of special education. It is hard to tell if the Taoiseach took on board our concerns around special education places, the number of SNAs in the system etc but he was genuinely interested in what we had to say about the Relate Framework. We will not stop campaigning on these important issues and will be sending out correspondence to those who have signed up to the campaign very soon.

23/06/2026

We are delighted to be presenting to the Oireachtas Education Committee tomorrow (and a little nervous). Keep a look out tomorrow evening for updates.

04/06/2026

A group that has been campaigning for better SNA provision in schools has welcomed the publication of a revised definition of the role of Special Needs Assistants in schools.

03/06/2026

Save Our SNAs statement in response to the publication of the new circular outlining the role of the Special Needs Assistant.

02/06/2026

14/05/2026

Tomorrow 15th is the deadline to apply for HomeBased Summer Provision. If your school is NOT running a programme, you may be eligible. Eligibility is different this year with your school applying through a portal and eligibility letters issued to parents.

08/05/2026

We wanted to clarify some confusion over who was invited to our public meeting in Ballybough and who didnt show up.

07/05/2026

Save our SNA campaign wants to thank the candidates who came to our by-election meeting in Ballybough last night and signed our pledge.

We as a campaign are very disapointed Fine Gael candidate Ray McAdam refused to sign the pledge and left a rooom of over 100 parents and SNAs before questions could be asked of him.

29/04/2026

Quick update. We are about to meet Cathal Crowe TD, chair of the education committee. We will do an update afterwards.

23/04/2026

We were invited to speak about our campaign at the Keep Left by election meeting in the Teachers Club this evening.
We are delighted to say all left candidates support our campaign and have agreed to attend our by election meeting on May 6th.
Lets keep building the momentum.