Thomas Gould
Ceist:223. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of SET hours allocated in Cork per student in the 2025-2026 school year; and the number for the 2026-2027 school year. [54113/26]
Amharc ar fhreagraWednesday, 15 July 2026
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This government is fully committed to supporting students with special educational needs to fulfil their full potential and the Programme for Government makes a number of commitments to deliver on this objective.
The primary responsibility for the education of all pupils in primary schools, including those with special education learning needs, is the class teacher.
Special education teachers provide additional teaching support to students in mainstream classes with an identified and recorded special educational learning needs in the student support plan aligned with the Continuum of Support framework.
The Special Education Teaching (SET) Allocation Model is a standardised allocation model that provides schools with additional teaching hours to support the teaching needs of students in mainstream classes based on the school’s profile of need.
It is important to understand that SET Resources are allocated as a whole school resource and not to individual pupils.
Each school must adhere to Circular 0064/2024 (The operation/application and deployment of Special Education Teacher resources) by ensuring that their SET allocation is deployed based on the student support plan for pupils and ensuring that those pupils with the greatest level of identified and recorded need receive the greatest level of learning support based on the Continuum of Support Framework.
Therefore, the information requested is only available in the individual school.
The NCSE publishes the SET allocation for each school on their website by county and the allocations for 2026/27 school year can be accessed at: www.ncse.ie/ncse/data-and-statistics/set-hours-special-class-teachers-and-sna-allocations/