Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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1077. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full year cost of increasing the number of SNAs by 500 in addition to the 990 pledged in Budget 2021. [41232/21]

Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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Budget 2021 increased the number of Special Needs Assistant (SNA) posts to over 18,000 by December this year. This represents an increase of increase of 70% in the number of SNAs provided since 2011 at which point 10,575 SNAs were available.

The pay at entry of a new entrant SNA, inclusive of employer PRSI, is €28,821 so the estimated cost of 500 SNAs would be €14,410,500.