John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if resource hours will be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in view of the fact that they have dyspraxia; if he will expedite this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13950/13]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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The Deputy will be aware that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), is responsible for processing applications from primary and post primary schools for special educational needs supports, including Resource Teaching support for children with more complex special needs. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in allocating such supports.

The NCSE has allocated its Resource Teaching supports to schools for the 2012/13 school year. Details of these allocations are available at www.ncse.ie.

The NCSE have now asked all schools to forward their applications for Resource Teaching Support for the 2013/14 school year to the NCSE by 15th March, 2013, and will advise schools of their revised allocations in advance of the coming school year.

In the interim, schools should support students who require resource teaching or learning support from their existing resource teaching allocations.