Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans he is putting in place to create equal supplementary panel rights for regulation 2 and regulation 3 teachers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16725/16]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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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.

The supplementary panel application process for eligible fixed-term (temporary/substitute) and part-time teachers for the 2016/17 school year is set out in Circular 0058/2015.

The Supplementary Special National Panel is in the process of being phased out since the end of the 2012/13 school year and is used only for filling permanent teaching posts in special schools that are not otherwise required for the redeployment of surplus permanent/CID holding teachers. No new applications have been accepted to the Special Supplementary National Panel since 2012.

Arrangements for the Supplementary Panel will be reviewed with the relevant education stakeholders later this year to determine what adjustment, if any, is required for the 2017/18 school year.