Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 406: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to the provision of a school place for the 2007/2008 school year for a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [22666/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy will be aware, the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), for allocating resource teachers and special needs assistants to schools to support children with special needs. Another specific function of the SENO is to identify appropriate educational placements for children with special educational needs.

I understand that a school place was accepted by the family but that they did not take up the placement. My officials have been in contact with the NCSE and I understand that the SENO has been liaising with the parents of the child in question to assist them in the matter.