NOTICE TO MEMBERS

MONDAY 28 JUNE 2010

QUESTION FOR URGENT ORAL ANSWER

To ask the Minister of Education to account for the removal of funding for Summer Schemes for Children with Learning Disabilities in the Southern Education and Library Board Area; to outline the contact that her Department has had with the Southern Education and Library Board in relation to this matter; and to detail what the Department of Education is doing as a matter of urgency to locate funding to allow these Summer Schemes to operate fully.

[Mr G Savage]

To ask the Minister of Education w hat action she will take to keep the ICAN centre in Ballynahinch open, ensuring it continues to provide intensive speech and language therapy for children with severe communication difficulties as an integrated education and health facility, following the decision on Thursday 24th June 2010 by Commissioners at the South Eastern Education and Library Board not to fund the educational element; and whether the Minister will agree to an urgent meeting with an all-party delegation on the issue.

[Mr P Givan]