Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In the context of the number of recently qualified teachers looking for jobs, and the numbers who are anxious to get into the training colleges, has the Department been in contact with the private sector teaching training institutes? All of us have people coming to our constituency clinics and telling us of the difficulty in finding work in the private or public sectors. The publicly funded training institutes have limited their intake as a result of the economic downturn. Has there been any engagement between the Department of Education and Skills and the private sector about the number of graduates it is producing on an annual basis?

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