Batt O'Keeffe
Ceist:186 Mr. B. O'Keeffe asked the Minister for Education and Science when additional remedial hours will be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [12351/02]
Written Answers. - Special Educational Needs.
The principal teacher of each primary school has overall responsibility for the school's learning-support (remedial teacher) programme. In selecting pupils for remedial education, priority should be given to those pupils who achieve scores at or below the 10th percentile in standardised tests in literacy/numeracy. In order to allow for measurement error, consideration may be given to selecting pupils who achieve scores up to and including the 12th percentile. Once schools are satisfied that the needs of pupils who have very low achievement or serious learning difficulties have been met, a limited degree of flexibility may be exercised in the deployment of the learning support teacher. If the Deputy wishes to provide me with details of the school attended by the pupil in question, I will arrange to have the child's needs examined by my Department's inspectorate.