Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure a common protocol is put in place for the advertising of all teaching posts including e-mail; if he will ensure that all qualified applicants are acknowledged and if unsuccessful, that the reasons for not being successful are communicated to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16403/16]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The recruitment and appointment of teachers to fill teaching posts is a matter for the individual school authority, subject to procedures agreed under Section 24 of the Education Act 1998 (as amended by the Education (Amendment) Act 2012). My Department has issued a number of communications addressing this issue in recent years.

The Governance Manual for National school's 2015 – 2019 Appendix D sets out the Recruitment and Appointment Procedures for Teachers in Recognised Primary Schools including advertising rules as well as notification of successful and unsuccessful candidates.

Circular 20/2012, applicable to the post-primary sector enabled web based advertising of teaching posts and removed the requirement to place advertisements in the national print media from 1 January 2013. The circular specified the use ofwww.publicjobs.ie for Principal and Deputy Principal posts andwww.educationposts.ie for all other teaching posts. Any changes to the list of websites are a matter for the management bodies.

All of the above communications can be accessed on the Department's website underwww.education.ie.

Where applicants have concerns about the advertising process, about failures in communications to unsuccessful applicants or about possible failures to comply with these Departmental communications, it is open to them to make a complaint to the Board of Management of the school involved.