Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 389: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) has not been facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46801/09]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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The Deputy will be aware that the home tuition scheme provides funding to parents to facilitate tuition for children of school going age awaiting an educational placement and also to provide early educational intervention for pre-school children with autism where no educational placement is available. I wish first of all to advise the Deputy that the tuition grant for the child in question has not been cut back. The position is that a number of educational placements have recently become available in a nearby school. The child's parents were aware that these placements would become available in November 2009 and were advised by my Department in September to remain in contact with their SENO in relation to securing one of these placements. Funding has been sanctioned to the 22nd of December 2009 to allow for transitional arrangements.