asked the Minister for Education when she will sanction the building of a room for Shanbally national school, County Cork where a remedial teacher is forced to teach children in the school corridor.
Written Answers - Shanbally (Cork) National School.
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The position generally with regard to remedial teaching areas is that it is not my Department's normal practice to provide grants for classrooms specifically for remedial teaching in schools which have fewer than ten class units.
My understanding of the position at Shanbally national school, County Cork is that it is a three-teacher school, and that an extra teacher comes to work there for two half-day remedial sessions per week. Remedial sessions are conducted in a small room measuring approximately one hundred and twenty eight square feet. I accept that reasonable arrangements should be made to accommodate the remedial teacher. I am arranging that the matter be investigated by my Department's professional advisers to establish whether the small room referred to could be improved by the installation of extra facilities, or whether a small annexe to the school could be provided to serve, inter alia, as a remedial teaching area. I shall inform the Deputy of developments in due course.