Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 29 January 2013
317. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the new panel arrangements in respect of primary school teachers; the priority, if any, that will be given to those who had been previously placed on the subsidiary panel with five years service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3988/13]
View answerThe 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 supplementary panels comprised of eligible fixed-term (temporary/substitute) and part-time teachers. Following a review of the operation of the subsidiary and supplementary panels in the 2012/13 school year and in order to enable the redeployment process to operate in a more efficient manner, with effect from the 2013/14 school year all eligible applicants who meet the relevant eligibility criteria will be placed on the supplementary panels and there will no longer be a separate subsidiary panel.
The arrangements for panel access for fixed term (temporary/substitute) and part-time teachers for the 2013/14 school year are set out in Department Circular 0038/2012 which is available on the Department website. The supplementary panel set up in accordance with the arrangements set out in this circular will be used for appointments to full-time permanent posts in primary schools but only where those posts are not otherwise required to facilitate the redeployment of surplus permanent and CID holding teachers. The closing date for application for access to the supplementary panel under the terms of the circular was Friday, 14 December, 2012.
