Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the gender breakdown of primary school principals by county. [12016/13]

Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the gender breakdown of principals in secondary schools by county. [12017/13]

Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the gender breakdown of principal in vocational education committee schools by county. [12018/13]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 107 to 109, inclusive, together.

The information requested by the Deputy in relation to teachers in Secondary, Community and Comprehensive Schools is not available on a county basis. VEC teachers are employees of VECs and are paid on 33 separate VEC payrolls. Accordingly, the Department does not have the information which the Deputy is seeking for teachers in VECs.

Jerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding those secondary and or montessori teachers who have been working within the special education sector and prior to circular 0038/2012 were entitled to apply for panel rights, with the phasing out of the Supplementary Special National Panels the provisions that have been made for those teachers who are adversely affected by the change; if they will be given any similar entitlements or will they have to apply for positions which only become available if the positions are not filled through the panel system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12020/13]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers to other schools that have vacancies. The redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers is key to the Department's ability to manage within its payroll budget and ceiling on teacher numbers. Thereafter, schools are required under the panel arrangements to fill permanent vacancies from supplementary panels comprised of eligible fixed-term (temporary/substitute) and part-time teachers.

Following a review of the operation of the subsidiary and supplementary panel arrangements in the 2012/13 school year and in order to enable the redeployment process to operate in a more efficient manner a number of changes are being introduced with effect from the 2013/14 school year. All eligible applicants who meet the eligibility criteria will be placed on the relevant supplementary panels. There will no longer be separate subsidiary panels. The Subsidiary and Supplementary Special National Panels are being phased out and no new applications are being accepted. This decision by the Department reflects the wider availability of primary teachers who are qualified to work in all settings which was not the case when this panel was originally set up.

Access to the Supplementary Special National Panel for the 2013/14 school year will be confined to those teachers who were on the Subsidiary or Supplementary Special National Panels in the 2012/13 school year and who did not secure a permanent teaching post. My Department has contacted these teachers directly. A further change is that the Supplementary Special National Panel for the 2013/14 school year will be used only for filling permanent teaching posts in special schools that are not otherwise required for the redeployment of surplus permanent teachers. The arrangements for panel access for fixed term (temporary), substitute and part-time teachers for the 2013/14 school year are set out in Circular 0038/2012 which is available on the Department website.