Primary school teachers are calling for cuts to special education to be reversed.
The Irish National Teachers Organisation says the time allocated to children in need of special resource hours has been reduced by 15 per cent.
The group says this is as a result of more than 2 and a half thousand staff members being lost to the system.
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The INTO is holding a conference today in Limerick, focusing on the area of special education.
Organisation President Sean McMahon, says the cutbacks to special education are unfair on the affected children:
