Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a person being placed on the supplementary special panel. [37214/13]

Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding transferring to the supplementary special school panel (details supplied) [37273/13]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 290 and 286 together.

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.

The detailed 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.

All eligible applicants who met the eligibility criteria were placed on the relevant supplementary panels. Applicants who did not meet the eligibility criteria were informed accordingly by my Department earlier this year. There is no mechanism to expand the criteria to cater for unsuccesful applicants.