Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expedite a request for a modular build ASD class for a school (details supplied). [27306/24]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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I can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department has recently received an application for the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme, from the school in question.

The purpose of my Department’s Additional School Accommodation (or ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom accommodation and accommodation for pupils with special education needs is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year, where the need cannot be met by the school’s existing accommodation.

At primary level, this situation generally arises to cater for a school’s accommodation requirements where an additional teaching post has been sanctioned by Teacher Allocation Section, or the requirement for a new class for pupils with special education needs has been identified by the NCSE, and all available alternative accommodation within the school is already being used for classroom purposes.

The application is currently being assessed by my officials who have requested additional information from the school. Once this information has been returned, a decision will issue to the school authorities directly upon completion of the assessment process