Ms Phil Fox:

I was just getting to that. In recent times we have contacted and had communication with teachers on the register who may have been retired to encourage them to consider becoming involved in substitution where a need may arise at a local level.

In the future, we could look at communicating with the register to see if there are teachers who are available or interested in becoming involved in different programmes offered by the State to assist with the national effort on this. I am not sure it is going to deliver.