The State has agreed to provide interim funding to ensure the survival of a Dublin school which was set up by parents to provide specialised education for their autistic children, Mary Carolan writes.
The funding of £1,300 weekly will continue pending the outcome of a High Court action taken by the children against the State in an attempt to guarantee the school will receive State finance into the future.
The Irish Children Autism Network for Development Opportunities School is in the back garden of the home at Holybrook Grove, Clontarf, of one of the child plaintiffs, five-year-old Oisin Fulham.
Until the legal proceedings were initiated last month, it received no State funding.
Through their mothers, Oisin Fulham and four other autistic children have taken judicial review proceedings aimed at securing State funding for the school.