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Language Support Teachers

Schools with an enrolment of fourteen or more newcomer children with English language deficits are entitled to an additional teacher, appointed on a year-by-year basis, to provide language support for such pupils. An individual child is entitled to a maximum of two years' language support.

These appointments are made on a temporary basis. In the case of a school having twenty eight or more non-English speaking pupils, the school is entitled to a second additional teacher.

Where a full-time teacher is sanctioned to provide English language support, a start-up grant of €635 is paid. €317 is paid where the appointment is continued for a further year. In primary schools where the number of eligible pupils is less than fourteen, grants are paid to enable the school authorities to arrange for part-time teaching for these pupils. The grants are at two levels and are available to any school which has three or more such pupils enrolled to enable them to acquire the services of a suitable person to teach these pupils English.