To be fully recognised to teach at primary level, teachers must have undertaken a recognised primary teaching training course and possess a recognised primary teaching qualification. Such a qualification can usually be achieved by a person graduating from one of the recognised teacher training courses in the colleges of education, including the postgraduate conversion courses, or by a primary teacher trained abroad achieving the necessary level of competence in the Irish language.
While the person referred to by the Deputy is a qualified second level teacher, her qualifications, as is the case with all persons similarly qualified, are not accepted for the purpose of recognition to teach in a permanent capacity in primary schools.