Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 217: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on an application in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Limerick. [21223/10]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the school was approved a devolved grant to build an additional two classrooms to meet the school's most immediate needs. The school was advised of this by letter from my Department on 7th May 2010.

In relation to the learning support resource teacher, the general allocation model was introduced in primary schools in September 2005 to ensure that each school has learning support/resource teaching support available to meet the needs of children with high incidence special educational needs.

Schools decide themselves how best to use this allocation based on the needs of the pupils and how to adjust their support in line with the changing needs of pupils as they mature. The Department provided a circular SP ED 02/05 to schools to assist them in deploying the General Allocation Model resources.

In that context, I can confirm that the school to which the Deputy refers did make an application for resource teaching. However, the application had insufficient information so the school were requested to re-submit their application.

When the additional information is received the application will be considered further.