Arthur Spring (Kerry North-West Limerick, Labour)
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470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) was not offered a permanent position considering evidence provided and the appeals process available to the person. [43092/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The staffing and redeployment arrangements for primary schools for the 2014/15 school year are set out in Circular 0007/2014 and are available on the Department website. Under these arrangements schools that are given provisional approval for a teaching post on the basis of provisional enrolments in September 2014 must hold open one vacancy to cater for the redeployment of any surplus permanent teachers that arise later in 2014 (either in the school with the provisionally approved post or in a neighbouring school). Holding open a vacancy means that the teaching post can only be filled on a fixed term basis up to Friday 24 October, 2014. The post to which the Deputy refers was such a post, i.e., a developing school post approved on a provisional basis. Following the recent staffing appeals process the post was affirmed on a permanent basis. However, the post was required for the redeployment of a surplus permanent teacher in a neighbouring school. As a consequence the teacher appointed in a fixed term capacity was placed back on the Supplementary Panel, in accordance with redeployment arrangements.