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

As Deputies Griffin and McConalogue know from their constituencies, there may be locations at which young teachers are not readily available to take up posts, particularly for short-term vacancies. There must be a certain degree of flexibility, but there is a distinction between a short-term vacancy and, for example, a maternity leave vacancy, which is typical of longer term vacancies. We will continue to do everything that we can. I hope that the new education and training boards, ETBs, will ensure an employment policy among its members. The vocational education committees, VECs, which are to become the ETBs, are the employers. Their members can move on this.