Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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Question 118: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff employed by the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee and County Dublin VEC for 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41808/10]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy is aware, Vocational Education Committees, including City of Dublin VEC and County Dublin VEC, are statutory bodies which employ and pay their own staff. Nonetheless, my Department holds information regarding staffing levels for certain categories of VEC employees.

The number of teaching posts allocated to a VEC scheme at any one time is determined in accordance with the agreed criteria relating to the application of the pupil teacher ratio. The National Council for Special Education is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers, for allocating special needs assistants (SNAs) to schools and for reviewing such allocations. The number of whole time equivalent (WTE) teacher and SNA posts allocated to City and County Dublin VECs for the years 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 are provided in the attached tables. My Department also monitors staff numbers for certain categories of VEC non-teaching staff for the purposes of the public sector number returns. Such categories include administrative and maintenance staff in schools, centres for education and administrative offices. The numbers of WTE posts in these categories in City and County Dublin VECs in 2009 and 2010 are also included in the attached tables. Equivalent information is not readily available for 2007 or 2008 and would involve an inordinate amount of administrative time to compile.