Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 1 May 2018
138. Deputy Tom Neville asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of resource teachers recruited in each of the years from 2005 to 2017, inclusive, and to date in 2018, by county and in tabular form. [18676/18]
Amharc ar fhreagra139. Deputy Tom Neville asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of SNAs recruited in each of the years from 2005 to 2017, inclusive, and to date in 2018, by county and in tabular form. [18677/18]
Amharc ar fhreagra140. Deputy Tom Neville asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special classes the National Council for Special Education plans to open in 2018, by county and in tabular form. [18678/18]
Amharc ar fhreagra141. Deputy Tom Neville asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special classes opened in each of the years from 2005 to 2017, inclusive, and to date in 2018, by county and in tabular form. [18679/18]
Amharc ar fhreagraI propose to take Questions Nos. 139 to 141, inclusive, together.
On 24th April, in reply to a parliamentary question from the Deputy, I provided information on spending on special educational needs and Tables showing the following totals:
- The number of SNAs allocated from 2005 to 2018;
- The number of special classes from 2010 to 2018; and
- The numbers of learning support and resource teachers from 2009 to 2017, and Special Education teachers in 2017/18.
Details on the numbers of special classes in each school per county for the 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18 school years are available on the NCSE website at http://ncse.ie/special-classes; while details on SNA and Resource teaching allocations for the same years, in each school per county, are available at http://ncse.ie/statistics.
I will arrange for the NCSE to reply directly to the deputy with Special Class, SNA, and Resource teaching details per county from 2005/06 to 2011/12, inclusive.
