Tom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael)
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Question 312: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an application for special needs teacher for a cluster of schools in the Carrick-on-Suir and Clonmel area (details supplied). [26970/05]

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 learning support-resource teaching, LS-RT, hours, based on their enrolment figures, to cater for pupils with high incidence special educational needs such as dyslexia and those with learning support needs. In May 2005, the three schools in question were each notified of their general allocation teaching hours and the schools with which they were to be clustered. The schools' management authorities subsequently submitted an alternative proposal to my Department to reorganise the cluster of schools to enable the three schools to share a full-time post. In this regard, I am pleased to advise the Deputy that the schools' authorities were notified in writing on 5 August 2005 that a permanent, full-time teaching post was approved to cater for the LS-RT needs of the three schools.