Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 1187: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps he will take to ensure that all teaching positions in primary schools whether temporary, permanent or substitute will be filled by a fully qualified teacher; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33412/09]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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The recruitment and appointment of personnel to fill teaching posts is a matter for the authority of each individual school, subject to agreed procedures.

It is the policy of my Department that only qualified personnel should be employed. Unqualified personnel should not be appointed except in exceptional circumstances and then only when all avenues for recruiting qualified personnel have been exhausted.