Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 1290: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties of the board of management of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 and its request to her Department for additional resources in view of the large numbers of international pupils on the roll; the additional resources she proposes to allocate to the school, particularly in respect of language teaching. [25858/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Schools catering for non-national pupils who have significant English language deficits are entitled to assistance to enable these pupils gain full access to the curriculum. Schools that have 14 to 27 non-English speaking non-national pupils enrolled are entitled to a full-time temporary language support teaching post at primary level. Schools with 28 or more such pupils are entitled to two full-time temporary language support teachers. In exceptional cases, following consideration by my Department's inspectorate, a third teaching post may be sanctioned.

The support for an individual pupil is provided for a period of up to two years. On the basis that the non-national pupils for whom support was sought are enrolled in the school referred to by the Deputy on 30 September 2005, my Department recently provisionally sanctioned the retention of a third language support teacher in the school.