Michael Lowry (Tipperary North, Independent)
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Question 523: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of special needs assistants allocated to a school, details supplied, in County Tipperary; if an additional special needs assistants will be allocated to the school; the reason for the delay in allocating same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8989/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The Deputy will be aware that the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, has been operational since 1 January 2005 and is responsible for processing applications for special educational needs supports. There is one special needs assistant, SNA, on my Department's payroll for the school in question. I am advised that the local special educational needs organiser, an official of the NCSE, has not received an application for additional SNA support for the school at this time.