Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of personal assistants employed, both directly and indirectly, by each ETB in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61469/22]

Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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SOLAS allocates the Fund for Students with Disabilities (FSD) to the Education and Training Boards (ETBs), who independently manage the funding allocations to providers for services and accommodations required to support PLC students with disabilities.

Some ETBs engage external service providers to provide personal assistant services while other ETBs directly employ personal assistants. As noted in the SOLAS Guidelines, where an ETB or Further Education College employs personnel to deliver supports to individual students, responsibility for the terms of employment rests with the individual ETB/ Further Education College.

My officials have compiled the following breakdown on the employment of personal assistants from information provided by the ETBs: