I propose to take Questions Nos. 173 and 174 together.
Following an application for additional resource teaching support for the child referred to by the Deputy a case conference was held on 23 January. In attendance were the child's father, all five members of the Midlands Autism Support Team, the school principal, a resource teacher and special needs assistant and two members of national educational psychological service. The conclusion was that, in view of the child's reported progress, it was not considered that she was in need of an extra allocation of resources at that time.
At present she has an allocation of five hours resource teaching support, a full-time special needs assistant and funding has been made available to the school for a computer under the IT 2000 initiative. She also availed of 40 hours home tuition for the month of July in 2002 and 2003.