Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 8 July 2014
275. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children attending resource teachers during each of the past five years; and the number of resource teachers employed during each of those years. [29727/14]
View answerThere is detailed historical information contained in the Statistics Section of my Department's website relating to the number of teaching posts in schools and pupils with special needs in mainstream schools. The most recent published information relates to the 2013/2014 school year.
The NCSE has notified all schools of their first round of allocation of resource hours for low incidence special needs for the coming 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.
