Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 9 Jun 1993

Vol. 432 No. 1

Written Answers. - Teaching Appointment.

Alan M. Dukes

Question:

227 Mr. Dukes asked the Minister for Education if, on the resignation by a vice-principal teacher in a national school of his or her vice-principalship, that teacher retains his or her position in that school; and if such a teacher would necessarily be the first to be placed on the Diocesan Panel if the school subsequently found itself in a position in which the number of teachers had to be reduced and no new teacher had been engaged in the school in the interim.

Minister for Education (Ms Bhreathnach)

Where the vice principal of a national school resigns his or her vice principalship in a school that teacher's seniority within that school is not affected. If an assistant post in the school is subsequently suppressed, the most junior assistant is given the option of having his or her name placed on the Diocesan Panel. The former vice principal would only be placed on the panel where she/he was the most junior assistant remaining in the school at the time the post was lost.