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

If we have to do this, and the likelihood is that we will, although I must put a caveat on it and note it is too soon to be absolutely definite, we have enough resources to pay for the additional teachers for the rest of this year - for the first term of the 2013-14 academic year, if one likes. The numbers are approximately €7 million in salary costs for approximately 500 teachers, depending on what may manifest itself. In terms of a full-year cost, it is one-third in the autumn of year and it becomes two-thirds plus one-third the following year, as a rough rule of thumb measurement.