Tom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael)
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Question 425: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a board of management of a primary school can hire an additional teacher out of its own resources where her Department has refused the school an extra teacher. [23074/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The mainstream staffing of a primary school is determined by applying the enrolment of the school on 30 September of the previous school year to a staffing schedule, agreed by my Department and the education partners. The recruitment and appointment of teaching staff to a primary school is the responsibility of each individual board of management. Any decision to recruit and employ additional teachers in excess of a school's entitlement as determined by the staffing schedule is a matter for the board of management.