Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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27. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be any further alleviation of moratorium on filling posts of responsibility at post-primary level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45366/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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There are limited alleviation arrangements in place for schools that are acutely affected by the impact of the moratorium at Assistant Principal level. These arrangements are mainly focused at post-primary level. However, I think it is fair to say that before the moratorium, notwithstanding the fact that one out of every two teachers held a management allowance the workload issue and the pressures on Principals and Deputy Principals existed.

Simply lifting the moratorium as extra funding becomes available in future years is not the best way of improving how school leadership is distributed in our schools.

The school management bodies at second level have published proposals for a more flexible model of middle management supports for schools. There is more work to be done in relation to these proposals and they will be the subject of more detailed discussions between my Department and the management bodies in the coming weeks.