Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 1015: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a classroom assistant will be granted to a child (details supplied) in County Mayo. [1863/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The National Council for Special Education 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. 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.

My officials have been in contact with the NCSE and I understand that the SENO has been liaising with the school and the parents of the pupil referred to by the Deputy in recent days regarding the child's needs.