Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No.72 of 24 October 2012, if he will outline the options available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52320/12]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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The teacher referred to by the Deputy is a post-primary qualified teacher who was placed on the Special National Subsidiary Redeployment Panel for the 2012/13 school year under the terms of Circular 0012/2012. The terms for the subsidiary special national panel allow for the inclusion of eligible post primary trained teachers on the panel to be appointed to certain permanent posts, i.e., in special schools where a proportion of the pupils are of post-primary age and where second level programmes are being provided by the school. Under the staffing arrangements for the current school year which are set out in Department Circular 0007/2012 the latest date for filling a permanent post on a permanent basis through the subsidiary/supplementary panels was the first working day of November. Thereafter posts are filled on a fixed term basis and if sustained by a school will be filled from the relevant redeployment panel in the 2013/14 school year.

My Department has just recently published Circular 0038/2012 which sets out the revised panel access arrangements for the 2013/14 school year. Under these arrangements the teacher in question has automatic access to the Supplementary Special National Panel for the 2013/14 school year. She retains the right to be offered certain permanent vacancies in special national schools for which she is eligible as outlined above. All circulars referenced are available on the Department website.