Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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Question 79: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any resolution will be found regarding the eligibility of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford seeking a permanent teaching post; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20225/11]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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The primary redeployment panel rules agreed between the relevant education partners and my Department are published on my Department's website and provide supplementary panel rights to eligible fixed-term teachers with between three and five years reckonable teaching service. The supplementary panel becomes operational when all permanent and CID holding teachers have been redeployed into vacancies that exist in other schools. The process of allocating teaching resources to schools for 2011-12 and the arrangements for filling vacant or new teaching posts, including temporary posts, takes place in the context of the EU-IMF Programme of Support for Ireland and the Public Service Agreement 2010-14.

It is necessary for my Department to exercise additional control and reporting measures this year to ensure the number of teachers employed in schools is consistent with the EU-IMF Programme of Support for Ireland. Flexible redeployment arrangements are required to ensure all surplus permanent teachers are redeployed into vacancies. The country simply cannot afford to have surplus teachers in a school while permitting recruitment to take place in another school. The teacher referred to by the Deputy has insufficient service to be included on the supplementary panel. It is the intention of the Department to restore recruitment from fixed-term teachers on the redeployment panels and public advertisement as appropriate at the earliest possible opportunity after all the surplus permanent teachers have been redeployed.