Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I accept the Minister's point that the schools are the employers, but the Department is the payer. If the Department was to take a tough line with a school that had notified it of employing a retired teacher and require the school to provide an explanation of what effort it had made to find a new teacher in search of work, more could be done. I accept that a circular has been issued, but the problem remains.

May I make a further point?