Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael)
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177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a secondary school teacher panel will be put in place in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42426/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent and CID holding teachers to other schools that have vacancies. The redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers is key to my Department's ability to manage within its payroll budget and ceiling on teacher numbers. At post primary level for the current school year teachers in the Connaught region were given an opportunity to volunteer for a transfer to other areas if such a transfer would free up a vacancy that would facilitate the redeployment of a surplus permanent teacher in that area. This arrangement operated on a pilot basis for 2014. My Department has no plans to introduce a separate voluntary redeployment scheme.

The criteria used for the allocation of teachers to primary and post-primary schools, including redeployment arrangements, are published annually. The arrangements for the 2015/16 school year will be published early in 2015.