Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

That refers to SNAs, etc. That is simply because of the general delay in vetting. There are problems with delays in vetting across the system and it causes problems for community organisations, for community employment, CE, schemes right across the system. Last year extra resources were put into the vetting office and that is under constant review in order to speed up the process but that is the reason why there is delay in that area. If we use the Teaching Council it should speed up the process specifically for teachers but the other issue is part of a general problem of delays in vetting, and we are working as a Government across Departments to address it. I will ask my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy English, to answer Deputy Bannon's question.