Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context

Question 214: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her position regarding the provision of educational co-ordinators funded by her Department and by the community based partnership groups; if funding for such co-ordinators will be renewed for the school year 2005-06, and in the long term; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17591/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context

For a number of years the Department has approved the secondment of teachers to area based partnerships operating under the aegis of Area Development Management, ADM. The purpose of this support is to promote co-ordination and coherence regarding the education related actions of partnerships at the level of local communities. However, in June 2004 the Department approved the continued secondment of education co-ordinators for one further academic year, that is, up to the end of June 2005. The question of extending approval for these posts is under consideration in the Department at present.