Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills of the 11 disabilities categories as low incidence the percentage of the total numbers for each disability on the list. [8730/14]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) published comprehensive policy advice on Supporting Students with Special Educational Needs in Schools last year. This policy advice is available at www.ncse.ie.

Table 5 of Appendix 1 of this publication details the approximate number of students for whom resource teaching hours (RTHs) were allocated to schools by the NCSE for low incidence disabilities for the academic year 2012-2013.

This publication details that for the 2012/13 school year, there were approximately 31,202 pupils in mainstream education in receipt of resource teaching allocations. The percentage breakdown of this distribution by disability category is as follows: Assessed Syndrome - .9%; Autism - 21%; Emotional Behaviour Disorder - 21.8%; Hearing Impairment - 3.6%; Moderate General Learning Disability - 2.4%; Multiple Disabilities - 8.2%; Physical Disability - 17.7%; Severe Emotional Behaviour Disorder - 4%; Severe & Profound General Learning Disability -.1%; Specific Speech and Language Disorder - 18.7%; and Visual Impairment - 1.6%.