Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 10 February 2015
504. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 480 of 25 November 2014 (details supplied), when a final response will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5643/15]
View answerTeachers who are fully registered with the Teaching Council and who hold provisional or restricted recognition from my Department continue to be eligible for appointment to posts in special schools and classes and Resource Teaching (low-incidence) Posts.
To be eligible for appointment to a learning support post, teachers must be fully registered with the Teaching Council and have satisfactorily completed their probationary period.
The teacher to whom the Deputy refers has restricted recognition and is currently employed in a permanent capacity in a primary school in a resource teaching post.
Interim arrangements were put in place following the introduction of the General Allocation Model in 2005, which permitted teachers with restricted recognition to teach in a combined learning support/resource teaching LS/RT post. However, with the revision of GAM in 2012, the terms of Circular 0007/12 no longer permits the combination of learning support and resource teaching hours.
A reply to the correspondence referred to by the Deputy will issue forthwith.
