192. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason applications to the National Council for Special Needs Education for resource teaching hours on behalf of students with special education needs that miss the March 2015 deadline because schools are waiting for the relevant documentation from health care professionals cannot be processed until October 2015; her views that in such circumstances, it is unacceptable that students with special education needs and their teachers should have to forgo the resource teaching hours to which they are entitled for almost 25% of the school year as a direct result of administrative inflexibility; her views that it should at least be possible to have such late applications processed and the applicable resource teaching hours allocated in time for the students' return from the summer break; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18033/15]

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192. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason applications to the National Council for Special Needs Education for resource teaching hours on behalf of students with special education needs that miss the March 2015 deadline because schools are waiting for the relevant documentation from health care professionals cannot be processed until October 2015; her views that in such circumstances, it is unacceptable that students with special education needs and their teachers should have to forgo the resource teaching hours to which they are entitled for almost 25% of the school year as a direct result of administrative inflexibility; her views that it should at least be possible to have such late applications processed and the applicable resource teaching hours allocated in time for the students' return from the summer break; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18033/15]

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