Written answers

Thursday, 27 September 2007

Department of Education and Science

Special Educational Needs

5:00 pm

Photo of Finian McGrathFinian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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Question 128: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will assist persons (details supplied) in County Donegal urgently with special needs for resource hours for their children. [21234/07]

Photo of Mary HanafinMary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy will be aware, the National Council for Special Education is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers, for allocating resource teachers and special needs assistants to schools to support children with special needs. I have arranged for the details supplied by the Deputy to be forwarded to the NCSE for their attention and direct reply.

All schools have the names and contact details of their local SENO. Parents may also contact their local SENO directly to discuss their child's special educational needs, using the contact details available on www.ncse.ie.

The NCSE will undertake to review a decision taken by a SENO on foot of a request from a school or parents/guardians, when accompanied by relevant additional information, which may not have been to hand at the time of the decision. The NCSE has outlined this process in its Circular 01/05.

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