Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)

I move amendment No. 14:

In page 9, to delete lines 14 to 16 and substitute the following:

"(b) a limit on the length for which such a person may be so employed in place of a registered teacher;".

The amendment provides that the regulations governing the employment of an unregistered person may include a limit on the length of time for which such person may be employed in the place of a registered teacher. This is a change from the existing word which refers to the unregistered person being employed in a teaching position. The change is proposed following representations from the INTO and from Deputy Smith and others. The suggestion was that under the original wording an unqualified person could be deemed capable of filling a teacher's job. The new wording is tighter - in order to be a registered teacher, one must, ipso facto, be a qualified teacher as distinct from merely a person being employed in a teaching position. I am happy to accept this change. Amendment No. 15 is similar in its intent.

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