Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 162: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when extra special needs and speech therapy teachers will be allocated to a school in County Kildare to facilitate the requirements of a number of persons now attending with particular reference to the needs of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5527/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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My Department's special education section has no record of receiving an application for special educational needs supports from the school in question. The National Council for Special Education has taken over responsibility for processing resource applications for children with disabilities who have special educational needs. The council's responsibilities include deciding on applications for resource teaching support in respect of children with low incidence disabilities with special educational needs at primary level. Since 1 January 2005, all applications for such supports are made by schools to the local special educational needs organiser. It is open to the school concerned to complete an application form and submit it to the special educational needs organiser. The provision of therapies is a matter for my colleague the Minister for Health and Children.