Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)

I accept that. This is what the central application facility is trying to resolve. As I indicated earlier, a good range of people, from principal officers, assistant principals and so on, have applied. We find it more difficult to fill some locations than others. A considerable shortfall exists in a number of areas for which we find it difficult to induce people to sign up. However, given the timeframe set out in my reply, we are optimistic we will fill them. As some of the proposed timeframes extend to 2009, we should be able to fill the quota of people we are trying to attract well in advance of those dates.

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