Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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Question 260: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 478 of 13 May 2008 if he will clarify whether the hours allocated to the school in question will remain in place for the school year 2008-09; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21224/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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In April, my Department notified the school referred to by the Deputy that based on the School's enrolment it had an over-allocation of 5 hours under the General Allocation model. As this is a recent development it is not intended to reduce the school's allocation for this school year.

All primary schools have recently been asked to complete an application form for the allocation of Learning Support/Resource Teaching posts for the 2008/2009 school year. This school has been asked to omit these hours from the school's application. The school has been informed that if it did not have sufficient hours within the cluster to retain the 2nd post, that my Department will review the schools case at that stage.

A full review of the schools allocation for the 2008/2009 school year will be carried out on receipt of the school's completed application for the Learning Support/ Resource Teacher posts (LS/RT1 form).