Charlie McConalogue
Question:257. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline in tabular form the number of resource teachers in our schools this year and every year since 1997. [40759/13]
View answerTuesday, 1 October 2013
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There is detailed historical information contained in the Statistics Section of my Department's website relating to the number of teaching posts in schools. The most recent published information relates to the 2012/2013 school year. The NCSE has notified all schools of their allocation of resource hours for low incidence special needs for the 2013/14 school year and has published this information on its website. The arrangements for how schools access these resource hours in teaching posts are set out in the published staffing arrangements for schools available on the Department website. Under these arrangements there are circa 3,000 resource posts at primary level and circa 2,310 resource posts at post primary level in the current school year.