Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 462: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will ensure that a place is available in the autism unit for a student (details supplied) in County Cork. [23430/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that the enrolment of a pupil in a primary school is a matter for the school's Board of Management. I can confirm that the local special educational needs organiser is liaising with the school authorities in relation to an application to have the child enrolled in the school in question.

Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 463: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action she will take in the case of person (details supplied) in County Galway who has been a special needs assistant for a number of years under the FÁS community employment scheme. [23431/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The recruitment, employment and dismissal of individual Special Need Assistants (SNAs) are matters for each school authority.

My Department understands from the Board of Management of the school referred to by the Deputy, that the Special Need Assistant in question has been employed under a FÁS Community Employment Scheme. The SNA is not on my Department's payroll and any issues in relation to his contract of employment is a matter for the school authority and FÁS/Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment.