School Staffing

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 24 October 2012

Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Questions (72)

Bernard Durkan

Question:

72. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the options available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who was recently hired as a resource teacher; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46782/12]

Written answers

Minister for Education and Skills

Each main redeployment panel is created for permanent and CID holding teachers in order to ensure that vacancies in permanent and fixed-term posts are offered in the first instance to these teachers. A secondary and discrete subsidiary of each main redeployment panel, the subsidiary main panel, is created for eligible teachers in fixed term, substitute and part-time posts who meet the relevant eligibility criteria outlined in Circular 0012/2012 which is available on my Department's website.

The arrangements for the subsidiary special national panel allow for the inclusion of eligible post primary trained teachers on the panel to be appointed to certain posts, i.e., in special schools where a proportion of the pupils are of post-primary age and where second level programmes are being provided by the school. The teacher referred to by the Deputy was eligible for the subsidiary special national panel in this context. She is not qualified to teach in a mainstream primary school setting. The teacher has therefore been reinstated on the subsidiary special national panel and retains the right to be offered vacancies for which she is eligible, in special national schools.