Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is State regulation as to the way in which panels for the employment of teachers in particular church dioceses operate in respect of schools under Catholic patronage. [28039/17]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The core function of the redeployment arrangements at Primary level is to facilitate the redeployment of all surplus full-time permanent/CID holding teachers to schools that have vacancies. The redeployment of all surplus permanent/CID holding teachers is key to the Department's ability to manage within its payroll budget and ceiling on teacher numbers. 

Thereafter, vacancies are filled from the Supplementary panel which is created for eligible primary teachers in fixed-term/temporary positions (this includes substitute positions) and in part-time positions who meet the relevant eligibility criteria.

The redeployment arrangements are published on my Departments website and operate in the same way for all Patron bodies.