Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review a matter and address the concerns of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14945/17]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The position is that the body referred to by the Deputy receives staffing approvals from my Department, for categories of staff such as teachers, other school support staff and administration staff.

It is a statutory body and has responsibility for employment matters. The way in which staff are recruited and assigned between offices, individual schools, colleges and other centres is a matter for the body as it is responsible for the administration and management of its staffing arrangements.

My Department has no direct involvement in the deployment of teachers within the body; it is required to organise its subject options in accordance with its needs and within the limit of its approved staffing allocations.

The issues raised by the Deputy are therefore a matter for the person's employer i.e. the statutory body. The name of the statutory body was not included in the details supplied by the Deputy. If the Deputy wishes to provide me with the name of the statutory body I will arrange for my Department to contact it and request it to revert to the Deputy in relation to this matter.