Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 1152: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if extra teaching hours for nomadic Traveller children at a school (details supplied) in County Clare will be allocated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25013/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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My officials have been in contact with my Department's inspectorate regarding the issue in question. I advise the Deputy that there are currently no Traveller pupils enrolled in this school and, therefore, the issue of additional teaching hours does not arise at this time.

Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 1153: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if consideration will be given to a resource teacher being shared between two schools (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25014/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy is aware, a new general allocation scheme has been announced under which schools have been provided with resource teaching hours, based on their enrolment figures, to cater for children with high-incidence special needs such as dyslexia and those with learning support needs.

The general allocation for the schools in question is 15 part-time hours in total. The schools' management authorities submitted a proposal to my Department in relation to putting in place a full-time post to be shared between both schools on the basis of the general allocation hours and also hours allocated to them in respect of pupils with low incidence disabilities. In this regard, I am pleased to advised the Deputy that the schools' authorities were notified in writing on 5 August 2005 that a full-time learning support-resource teacher, LSRT, post is approved on a temporary basis for the 2005-06 school year.