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

I know that. We are just trying to get a handle on who knows. The Department knows the number of students. The Teaching Council has access to all of the teachers. Ms Fox tells me that there are 116,000 teachers and that the council is involved in regular dialogue with the Department about delivering this and assessing the numbers one way or the other. I still do not know the number I am seeking. I know how many teachers there are and how many student teachers became available. I have no sense of the number of teachers that Ms Fox believes are necessary or how the Teaching Council will activate them.