Carol Nolan (Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing 100 additional English as additional language posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17794/17]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The average cost of a primary EAL teacher is €60,000 while the average cost of a post primary EAL teacher is €63,000.

The level of extra teaching support provided in respect of language support to schools is determined by the numbers of eligible pupils enrolled and the associated levels of those pupils' language proficiency.

Earlier this year, I announced that a new model for allocating Special Education Teaching Resources to mainstream primary and post primary schools will be introduced from September 2017. The new model will allocate teachers to schools on the basis of the profiled educational needs of each school. This new model will encompass the Learning/Language support allocation that schools were allocated in previous years.