Vol. 399 No. 3
162 Mr. Durkan asked the Minister for Education the total number of national schools to which remedial teachers were appointed in 1989 in (a) the country and (b) County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
163 Mr. Durkan asked the Minister for Education if she will appoint remedial teachers to various national schools throughout the country in the current year; the optimum number required on foot of documented need in (a) the entire country and (b) in County Kildare; if all or part of the need will be met in (a) or (b) above in the current year; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
I propose to take Questions Nos. 162 and 163 together.
Remedial teaching posts are allocated in accordance with priority of need. Sixty-six national schools throughout the country will benefit from the services of 30 additional remedial posts which I sanctioned in the current school year. One of these posts will serve one school in County Kildare.
One thousand one hundred of the 3,247 national schools in the country have a remedial teaching service while 45 of the 89 schools in County Kildare benefit from the service.
I will be keeping the appointment of further remedial teachers under review.
164 Mr. Durkan asked the Minister for Education when she will appoint remedial teachers to national schools throughout the country for the 1990-91 school year; if she will make an announcement before September; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
I sanctioned 30 additional remedial teachers this school year to supplement the existing cadre of some 850 remedial teachers in primary schools.
I will be keeping the appointment of further remedial teachers in primary schools under review.
165 Mr. Durkan asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to the need for a remedial teacher to be shared between Crookstown and Kilmead national schools, County Kildare; if she has received a recent request from the parents of the area in this regard; if she accepts the urgency in this case; if she will make an appointment before September 1990; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
To date the schools in question are not among those to which it has been possible for my Department to allocate the services of a remedial teacher in accordance with its assessment of priority of need.
I sanctioned 30 additional remedial teachers this school year in primary schools and I will be keeping the appointment of further remedial teachers under review.
