Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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928. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Offaly will be credited with the time from when that person's application to the Teaching Council was received; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21282/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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As the Deputy will be aware, since 2006, under the Teaching Council Act 2001, the Teaching Council is the regulator and standards body for the teaching profession. Under Circular 31/2011 of my Department, persons who have applied for registration as teachers with the Teaching Council are paid at the unqualified rate of pay pending the decision of the Council.

I note also the reference to the teacher redeployment panel. The position is that the core function of the redeployment arrangements is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus permanent teachers to other schools that have vacancies. 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. Arrangements for panel access for fixed-term (temporary), substitute and part-time teachers to the Supplementary Redeployment Panel for the 2015/16 school year are set out in Circular 0072/2014 which is available on my Department's website. Applicants must meet all of the published criteria in order to gain access to the Supplementary Redeployment Panel. The teacher who is the subject of the question failed to meet the criteria and is therefore ineligible to be included on the supplementary redeployment panel.