Noel Coonan (Tipperary North, Fine Gael)
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523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1004 of 3 November 2015, if resource hours or additional special needs assistant hours will be allocated to person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44922/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The Deputy will be aware that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs) for allocating Resource Teaching hours or Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) to schools to support children with special educational needs.

The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in allocating such support, which in relation to SNA support is set out in my Department's Circular 0030/2014, and in relation to Resource Teaching support is set out in DES Circular 02/05.

As the Deputy's question of 3rd November 2015 referred to an application for support in relation to an individual child, this issue was referred to the NCSE for its attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

The NCSE has advised that it replied directly to the Deputy in relation to this matter on 8th December, 2015.