Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 332: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding primary school teachers in the Laois-Kildare area seeking to complete their diplomas in 2004 because they cannot obtain the information from his Department with regard to the name and address of the inspector that they have to contact to deal with their applications; the name and address of the relevant official within his Department to whom such applications can be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5007/04]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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In September 2003, all primary school principals, including those in the Laois-Kildare area, were informed by letter of the name and contact details of the assigned primary inspector for the school. School management was advised to contact the assigned inspector as soon as possible if any teachers on probation were employed for the current school year.

A divisional inspector, with responsibility for a number of schools in the Kildare area retired a few weeks ago. He had made visits to all teachers on probation in the schools assigned to him and arrangements have been made to have the probationary process completed for these teachers by other inspectors.

If probationary teachers have been appointed to these schools in the past few weeks, or if schools have mislaid the contact details for their assigned inspector, they should contact the regional assistant chief inspector, Mr. Pádraig Mac Sitric, through the secretariat of the inspectorate in my Department, Marlborough Street, Dublin 1 at 01-8896553.