Parents of children at a special school on the northside of the city say their children will not be able to learn without the support of therapists.
They are to mount a demonstration outside St Killian's Special School in Mayfield this lunchtime as no therapies have been provided at the school since 2019.
The school was excluded from the new pilot programme which returns therapies to four Cork schools this autumn after they were promised funding to hire private therapists only to have that promise broken.
Fiona Coughlan's daughter Chloe attends the school and she told RedFM News they need to be included in the pilot programme:
"Every child in a special school not only deserves these therapies, they need them and they need them now. They cannot wait any longer. To say there is a pilot scheme coming and that some schools are included is not good enough. All schools need to be included or the government need to release the funding to allow us to do it privately which we were told at a meeting at Leinster House last November was available and readily available for us."
