Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the special circumstances will be reconsidered regarding a request by a school (details supplied) for a start-up grant for an autism unit; if correspondence from the school principal will be examined in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53320/18]

Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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The school referred to by the Deputy has already received the grant funding in question. The relevant start-up grant is provided at the time of the establishment of a new ASD class in a school for the purpose of setting up that class. It is a once-off grant in that context and has been provided to the school in respect of all the ASD classes sanctioned for it. Therefore, the Department is not in a position to provide a further grant.