Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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945. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way a qualified primary school teacher with five years' experience may access panel rights to secure a permanent position; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21504/15]

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 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 the Department website. Applicants must meet all of the published criteria in order to gain access to the Supplementary Redeployment Panel. The application process for the coming school year is now complete.

Arrangements for access to the Supplementary Panel for the 2016/17 school year will be published on the Department website later this year.