Catherine Murphy
Question:341. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the estimated full-year cost of providing 100 additional English teachers as additional language posts. [31169/20]
View answerTuesday, 20 October 2020
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The Special Education Teaching allocation, as outlined in Circulars 0007/2019 (primary schools) and 0008/2019 (post primary schools), provides a single unified allocation for special educational support teaching needs to each school, based on each school’s educational profile and also encompasses the Language Support (EAL) allocation that schools were allocated in previous years.
Further temporary Language Support is also provided, as necessary, to schools that have high concentrations of pupils that require language (EAL) support. At primary level, these allocations are made on the basis of appeals by schools to the Primary Staffing Appeals Board and at post-primary level to the Post Primary Staffing Appeals Board.
The staffing arrangements for primary and post primary schools for the 2020/21 school year, as set out in Circular 0018/2020 (primary) and Circulars 0013/2020, 0014/2020 and 0015/2020 (post primary), which are available on the Department website, provides details on the staffing appeal process.
The cost of providing an additional 100 EAL teachers would be in the region of €5m per annum.