Michael Lowry (Tipperary, Independent)
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670. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to investigate the case of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6384/16]

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 published redeployment arrangements, available on the Department website, sets out that where a school is due to have a teaching post suppressed, it is the most junior permanent/CID holding teacher in the school that is placed on the panel.

In exceptional circumstances, the most junior teacher may seek the approval of the Board of Management to be replaced on the Main Panel by an alternative permanent/CID holding teacher in the school. The redeployment arrangements set out that this application must be made to the Chairperson of the Board of Management within 5 working days of the publication of the staffing circular.

In the case of the teacher referred to by the Deputy, the school she is employed in is due to have a post suppressed for the 2016/17 school year. The most junior permanent teacher in the school was placed on the Main Redeployment Panel and has since deferred her panel rights to take up a temporary post in her own school. As the most junior permanent teacher has availed of her panel rights, it is not an option for the teacher referred to by the Deputy to be placed on the panel.