Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a resource teacher in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17805/13]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Of all NCSE approved resource teaching hours in the 2012/13 school year, 85% were allocated to schools that had resource base posts. A network of over 2,500 full-time resource posts has been put in place in close to 1,700 base schools throughout the country. Base schools are required to co-operate with their neighbouring schools to ensure that any surplus capacity in the (25 hour) resource posts is made available to neighbouring schools to meet their NCSE approved resource hour requirements. If the surplus capacity is fully utilised there are standard arrangements in place for the relevant schools to contact the Department for part-time resource teaching posts. The arrangements for the coming school year 2013/14 are set out in Circular 0013/2013 which is available on the website.