Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 18 October 2012
111. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a permanent teaching post will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45424/12]
View answerThe teacher referred to by the Deputy is currently on the supplementary special panel. Special schools with vacancies and primary schools with special class and resource post vacancies are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent vacancies from the supplementary special panel when the main and subsidiary special panels are clear. The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers to other schools that have vacancies. The redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers is key to the Department's ability to manage within its payroll budget and ceiling on teacher numbers.
Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent vacancies from panels (subsidiary and supplementary) set up of eligible fixed-term (temporary), substitute and part-time teachers. For the 2012-13 school year there were close to 1,700 such teachers on these panels. In any given year there will be a number of teachers on these panels that do not secure a permanent post.
