I propose to take Questions Nos. 151 and 153 together.
My capacity to allocate additional remedial teacher posts in any given year is dependent on resource availability and the level of competing demand from other special needs areas. I have to determine priorities and allocate available resources to best effect. However, I am committed to ensuring that a remedial resource is made available to all primary schools over the next two years. I can assure the Deputies that the needs of the schools to which they refer will be considered in the context of any additional remedial teacher allocations which may be undertaken for the forthcoming school year.