Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)

-----and inquire whether - as a result of the fact that he or she cannot get a qualified teacher at short notice - he or she can call on the services of a retired teacher who worked in the school the previous year or whether he or she can employ the latter's son or daughter? That is absurd and it is a real betrayal of the investment the State and taxpayers have made in training qualified teachers. Those to whom I refer are desperate to find work in order that they might get on the first step of the ladder towards obtaining a permanent teaching post. These individuals are obliged to take a day's work here, there or anywhere they can get it throughout the country. That is also absurd and is sufficient reason for the House to reject the Bill.

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