Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 522: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a special needs assistant will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who is starting school in September; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16764/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy is aware, the Special Educational Needs Organiser (SENO) of the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible for allocating support teaching and special need assistants as a school-based resource for pupils in need of additional supports.

I understand that no application for SNA support in respect of this child has been made to the local SENO. I have arranged for the details supplied by the Deputy to be forwarded to the NCSE for their attention. In the meantime, the parents should contact the school in which their child has been enrolled and request that their child's details are forwarded to the local SENO.