The question of allocating additional resources to individual schools within a particular VEC is a matter in the first instance for the chief executive officer, with the agreement of the committee.
The Deputy will be aware that I announced some months ago that all second level schools in the free education scheme would be entitled to an automatic allocation in respect of remedial.
This provision was put into effect for the 1999-2000 school year. The allocation to individual schools has been determined by the enrolment in the school. Schools with enrolments of 600 or more pupils have been allocated a full post while schools with enrolments below 600 have been allocated 0.5 of a post.