Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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Question 452: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 230 of 12 March 2008, the reason the commitment given that the local special education needs officer would contact the parents of a child (details supplied) in County Kilkenny seeking increased resource hours before the school re-opens after the Easter holidays has not been honoured; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14012/08]

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 (SNAs) to schools to support children with special needs.

My officials have been in contact with the NCSE and have been advised that the NCSE are liasing directly with the Deputy's office regarding the pupil in question.