Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the required education support will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29694/13]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that the NCSE, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs), is responsible for processing applications from schools for special educational needs supports, including the allocation of resource teachers and Special Needs Assistants to schools. The NCSE operates within my Department's established criteria for the allocation of Special Education supports and the staffing resources available to my Department.

All schools were advised to apply to the NCSE for resource teaching and SNA support for the 2013/14 school year by 15th March 2013. The NCSE are currently processing these applications and schools will be notified by SENOs of their resource teaching and SNA allocation for 2013/14 in advance of the coming school year, based on the number of valid applications received.

The NCSE intend to notify schools and publish details of allocations for SNAs and resource teaching hours for the 2013/2014 school year on Wednesday 19th June. These details will be available at www.ncse.ie.