I propose to taker Questions Nos. 125 to 140 (inclusive) together.
The position in regard to remedial teaching is that my Department has received applications from St. John Bosco national school, Navan Road and central model girls' national school, Marlborough Street.
The applications for remedial teachers for national schools are being processed at present in my Department.
Remedial teaching posts are allocated in accordance with a priority of educational need rather than social disadvantage and the applications referred to above will be considered in the light of the availability of remedial posts for 1986-87. I will contact the chairpersons of the board of management when a decision is made.
None of the other 14 schools mentioned by the Deputy has a current application for a remedial teacher or an additional remedial teacher; some of them already have a remedial post.
With regard to the question of the association of other resources to the schools in question the position is that through participation in a programme of special educational measures for primary schools in disadvantaged urban areas, additional resources have been made available to the following schools:
(i) Pro-Cathedral Infant Boys' N.S., Lower Rutland Street,
(ii) Pro-Cathedral Boys' N.S., Lower Rutland Street,
(iii) St. Laurence O'Toole Junior Boys' N.S. Seville Place,
(iv) St. Laurence O'Toole Infant Girls' N.S., Seville Place,
(v) St. Laurence O'Toole Girls' N.S., Seville Place,
(vi) St. Joseph's N.S., St. Mary's Road, East Wall.
The measures from which the schools benefit include special grants for books and equipment, the sponsorship of home/school/community liaison initiatives and an inservice training programme for the teachers concerned.
Having regard to the total finance available, £750,000 in 1986, it has been necessary to limit the number of participating schools as the promotion of the scheme on a broader basis would seriously limit the quality of the intervention.