“Oh Wait, I’m Minister For Education!” Confirms Minister For Education Shortly After Halting SNA Cuts

PLANNED CUTS to SNAs in mainstream class rooms across the country has been halted less than 24 hours after the government insisted halting the cuts wasn’t something they could do or was in their power, WWN can reveal.

“I feel silly now, so that’s why all those emotionally devastated and angry parents were getting onto my office? What am I like!” explained Minister for Education Hildegarde Naughton, as it dawned on her she is in fact Minister for Education.

Not wanting to shock the Irish public by displaying efficiency and enacting well thought out plans, the Department of Education confirmed that this reversal would also be full of terrible communication and unintended consequences such as pausing any new SNAs recently pledged to schools.

“And yes, yesterday we said ‘hey that’s none of our business, take it up with the NCSE’ but it turns out we could have always shaped policy so that it didn’t deprive children of essential SNA resources, who knew?” a spokesperson for the minister confirmed.

“The review we insisted was binding, could not be reversed and was out of our hands was in fact in our hands, reversible and not binding, but don’t let that give you any hope that we might extend such thinking to the environment or housing,” added an exhausted looking government spokesperson who stayed up all night trying to explain rain to the Minister of Environment Darragh O’Brien.

Meanwhile, opposition TDs who hadn’t noticed the government was introducing SNA cuts when the initial review was ordered have now transformed into lifelong advocates for children with additional needs.

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