Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 890: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 177 of 26 January 2006, if she will re-examine her reply; the regulations for recognition as a junior cycle teacher; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15048/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Recognition of a qualification for the purpose of teaching a particular subject from the post-primary curriculum is awarded where an assessment of the documentation submitted in relation to that qualification shows that the criteria for such recognition have been met. These criteria require among other things that the qualification has adequately prepared the holder to teach the subject to the highest level of the curriculum. In the case of mathematics the highest level is leaving certificate higher.

In my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 177 of 26 January 2006, I pointed out that the registration council, to whom the person named by the Deputy had applied for recognition, had refused recognition of her qualifications for the purpose of teaching mathematics as the qualification did not meet the criteria for such recognition. The applicant has not submitted any further documentary evidence in support of her application. The registration council has since been replaced by the teaching council, which is now the statutory body for the recognition of qualifications for all teachers.

In so far as the person named by the Deputy is employed as a teacher, her employer has been advised by my Department that the matter of her employment status is one which the employer should determine within the terms of circular letters PPT06/04 and PPT17/04.