Jim O'Keeffe
Question:156 Mr. J. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will sanction additional learning support/remedial tuition for a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [32806/04]
View answerWednesday, 8 December 2004
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I can confirm that an application for 2.5 hours resource teaching support per week for the pupil in question was received in my Department.
The Deputy will be aware that my Department is proposing a new system for the allocation of resource teaching supports to pupils with special needs. This system will involve a general teaching allocation for all primary schools to cater for pupils with higher incidence special educational needs, SEN, that is, those with borderline mild and mild general learning disability, specific learning disability and also those with learning support needs. It will also allow for individual allocations in respect of pupils with lower incidence SEN.
The school referred to by the Deputy currently has the services of a shared learning support teacher together with part-time resource teaching hours. The pupil in question falls into the high incidence category. It would be expected that the pupil's SEN can be met from within the current resource/learning support teaching allocation available to the school. The school authorities were advised accordingly on 3 December 2004.