Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I know. I am just establishing that. We engage on an ongoing basis with all the stakeholders regarding demand and supply to ensure that we have an appropriate supply in place. That includes the higher education institute, HEI, providers. We also have a teacher supply action plan which is informed by the work of all of our stakeholders and partners in education. The private providers are responding as they are entitled to, as in whatever sector of society. We do have 3,400 teachers coming on stream. It is a significant body. The demographics tell us the requirement at primary level is actually coming down rather than going up. I appreciate the Deputy has a particular interest in this. We look at everything with our teacher supply action plan. We engage on an ongoing basis with all the education providers and partners in education and we will continue to do that.