Dr. Lynn Ramsey:

Ms Healy can take the committee through that.

The other category the Senator described is teachers who qualified outside the Republic of Ireland and are seeking to join the register. Approximately 600 teachers in that category apply every year. We are bound by the EU directive with respect to those teachers. We do the processing within 12 weeks. We apply that universally, regardless of whether they qualified in the EU or a non-EEA country. We apply it in a global way. We have done two stages of reviews for those teachers. Prior to our reviews we were averaging 11 weeks for the turnaround from assessment to registration. Last year, we processed them in an average of eight weeks and this year we are currently at seven weeks according to the review.

I will hand over to Ms Healy who will talk through the reregistration process.