Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

----- where a child clearly needs provision and ask why the matter is not being addressed. The Minister for Education and Skills is doing a number of things to square these two points. He has appointed Mr. Eamon Stack to carry out an assessment of the allocation model to discover why the protection of resources does not appear, in some cases, to be translated on the ground. The Minister will have an interim report from Mr. Stack at the beginning of October.

Deputy Micheál Martin raised the issue of the requirement for earlier application for special needs assistants and resource teachers. That is precisely to enable the difference between the making of the general allocation which has been protected and what is happening on the ground in individual schools to be shortened in order that the matter can be addressed quickly and resources can be deployed to where they are needed.

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