Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 1190: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when an application for two classroom assistants will be processed for a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25296/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to confirm for the Deputy that the local special educational needs organiser, SENO, has confirmed that there are no applications in hand for additional special needs assistant, SNA, support in the school in question. Therefore, as the pupils being catered for by the SNAs in question have left the school, there is no provision under which the SNAs can be retained and the board of management of the school should make immediate arrangements to terminate their contracts in line with agreed procedures.

In this regard I can confirm that my Department recently concluded a redundancy package for surplus SNAs with the union that represents SNAs. The SNAs in question can obtain details of whatever redundancy arrangements that may apply to them from the payroll section of my Department.