Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 May 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed)

4:00 pm

Mr. Diarmaid de Paor:

There is also a huge irony, because once someone is qualified there is nothing to prevent an employer from getting a new teacher to teach a subject they are not qualified to teach. It might be decided that a maths teacher is to teach English, if the teacher is agreeable. The huge irony is that although one cannot get qualified by teaching outside subjects, once qualified it does not matter.