Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 279: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a special needs assistant will be allocated to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10622/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The National Council for Special Education, NCSE, has taken over responsibility for processing resource applications for children with special educational needs since 1 January 2005. The council has a key role in the delivery of services for persons with special educational needs and operates through a network of special educational needs organisers, SENOs.

I have been informed that the local SENO does not consider additional support appropriate in this case as the child in question is in a class with two other pupils which has a staffing of one teacher plus two special needs assistants. However, the situation can be reviewed should circumstances change.