Question from Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - PQ 38078-26

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality if she will provide details on the number of senior health and social care professional whole-time equivalent posts allocated to deliver therapy services across special schools nationally; if she is aware that of the 136.3 senior HSCP whole-time equivalents allocated for onsite service provision across 82 special schools, only 88.85 were in post as of June 2025, leaving approximately 35% of allocated posts unfilled; the action been taken to fill those posts -