Dr. Lynn Ramsey:

That was the time bound piece for that regulation. If we want to amend our regulations in any way now, there is a new EU directive called the proportionality assessment. That requires us to do a staged process in order to consult and then to refer back. The Minister has the authority there. The Minister will have to delegate it to us. We have had to take some time to step through what that process will look like. We are learning what that would look like.

The council is at an advanced stage in moving to that consultation phase for a new regulation that will allow a teacher qualified outside of Ireland who had not completed induction to come to Ireland to complete it. The legal basis for that is grounded in the teaching supply requirements, linked to the demographic projections of the Department of Education. We are at an advanced stage of that planning.