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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Issues Facing Small Primary Schools: Discussion (3 Jul 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I will make another couple of points. I would like some more feedback from our three sets of guests about the crucial issue of financing and funding at school level. A particular issue has arisen with regard to special needs assistants and resource teachers in recent times. I would be particularly interested to hear feedback from the General Synod of the Church of Ireland and the Catholic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Issues Facing Small Primary Schools: Discussion (3 Jul 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I will conclude by apologising in advance for the fact that I will have to leave this meeting to attend Question Time in the Dáil Chamber at 2.30 p.m.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (3 Jul 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 1. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether children qualifying for a special needs assistant this coming September will experience reductions in their allocated special needs assistant hours due to the continuance of the cap on numbers at a time when the number of students qualifying for special needs assistant support has increased by 10%; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (3 Jul 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister for his response. This is an issue we discussed on Private Members' business last week. At the outset I express my disappointment that neither the Minister nor a Minister of State from the Department of Education and Skills was present for the second day of that debate. In my experience that is unprecedented in the conduct of Private Members' motions. Parents of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (3 Jul 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: The cap is remaining the same and there is a 10% increase in demand. Those are two facts. That means there is a reduction in hours available to individual children who need to avail of an SNA-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (3 Jul 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: -----because they now have to share those SNAs with more children, meaning there are fewer hours available to them.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (3 Jul 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I am disappointed the Minister is not acknowledging that is the impact it is having on the ground - it is leading to a cut for many children. I ask him to acknowledge that and apply the same-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (3 Jul 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: -----treatment to SNAs as he did to the issue of resource teachers-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (3 Jul 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: ---- where he actually increased the number of teachers available there.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (3 Jul 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: In his final reply I ask the Minister to outline why neither he nor one of his Ministers of State was available to be present in the Dáil last Wednesday night for the debate on the Private Members' motion. I would be pleased if the Minister could provide some evidence to back up his case. So far we have seen nothing in that regard from him other than an assertion that there has been...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (3 Jul 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: Does the Minister have any explanation as to why he was not present last Wednesday night?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (3 Jul 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of hours a permanent special needs assistant in a primary school is required to work on a weekly basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32377/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (3 Jul 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether the total number of hours a permanent special needs assistant in a primary school works is inclusive or exclusive of tea breaks and lunch breaks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32379/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (3 Jul 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow is being asked for a financial contribution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32451/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (3 Jul 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 202. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is committed to retaining funding for the school completion programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25499/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (3 Jul 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 203. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress she can report on her plans for a second free preschool year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32278/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2014 Issues (2 Jul 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance in the absence of a revised medium term fiscal statement in 2013, if he plans to provide an update on the size and composition of the 2014 fiscal adjustment prior to budget day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31917/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (2 Jul 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim will now have to share a special needs assistant despite the fact that they have needed a full time SNA since the beginning of their education up until the end of the current academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31712/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Education Review (2 Jul 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends to comply with last October's ruling from the Children's Ombudsman that he should publish an autism policy document; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31744/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (2 Jul 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a psychologist, employed by the Health Service Executive, recommends that a child with Autism receive Early Intensive Behavioural Intervention for a specified number of hours each week, his views that it is proper for a teacher to utilise his Departments preferred eclectic approach which professional behavioural psychologists warn is...