Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I have dealt with the matter before. We recommend very clearly to the schools that they should not take on retired teachers for substitute purposes. I said very clearly at the INTO conference in Donegal that the person who hires the retired teacher to come in to substitute is the principal of the school. All the principals in the primary school system are in fact members of the INTO so, if they implement their own union policy, they will not be hiring retired teachers.