Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is correct, but what is the dialogue about making teachers available? We have this difficulty whereby 116,000 teachers are on the register, an extra 3,500 teachers were made available, through emergency measures, by the Teaching Council last year, and more than 1,200 student teachers are in training. We are being told that teachers are not available to offer July provision. There seems to be a very large number of teachers. We are told by the Teaching Council that teachers are the largest group of registered professionals in Ireland. There is some gap. Not all of them are needed, but a subset is. Nobody can tell this committee who those people are, where they are, how many there are and how they are being activated to do that July provision. I am sorry; I should not take up my colleagues' time.