Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children requiring resource hours of any kind during each year since 2009; and if she will provide an update on the National Council for Special Education reformed allocation system. [33938/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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Details of the number of pupils in mainstream primary and post primary schools for whom allocations of resource teachers hours are provided to schools by the National Council for Special Education, in order to support children with low incidence special educational needs, as defined by my Departments circular DES02/05 and 70/2014, for each year since 2009, are set out in the attached table.

It should also be noted that all schools also receive general allocations of resource teaching/learning support in order to support pupils with mild general learning difficulties, or learning support needs in schools. This is provided either under the General Allocation Model in primary schools or through allocations for learning support at post primary school level.

As schools have delegated sanction to distribute these hours within their schools, taking into account the learning needs of their pupils, the details of the individual pupils provided with additional resources under the general allocation scheme are maintained by individual schools.

# As 1st October 2015 as the Resource Teaching Allocation process for 2015/16 remains underway.