Sorca Clarke
Question:251. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education the number of permanent teaching post contracts issued to teachers in national, primary and secondary schools in 2022, and to date in 2023. [18941/23]
View answerTuesday, 25 April 2023
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I wish to advise the Deputy, that the Boards of Management of schools are the direct employers of teachers. My Department acts as paymaster on behalf of primary schools, voluntary secondary, community and comprehensive schools.
Once an allocation of teaching posts has been made for schools then directly recruit and employ teachers.
Accordingly, my Department does not have details of the number of permanent teaching contracts which may be offered to teachers by schools each year, or then subsequently issued by schools. My Department does, however, publish details of the number of teaching posts which are allocated to schools each year and also the number of teachers employed by schools each year.
Details of the number of teaching posts which are allocated to primary and secondary schools each year are published as part of my Departments annual key statistics information reports. These reports are available at gov.ie - Key Statistics (www.gov.ie)
Details of the number of teachers who are appointed to primary and post primary schools (excluding ETB schools) each year are published at www.gov.ie/en/publication/c97fbd-teacher-statistics/#number-of-teachers-by-gender-appointed-to-teaching-posts
As the 2022/23 school year is still underway, data for the 2022/23 school year has not yet been compiled and published.