Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teaching principals who have retired or left their post as a teaching principal prior to retirement age by county since 2015, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38181/18]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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Information on the retirement of primary teachers in each of the years 2015-2017 is outlined in Table 1. The information sets out the total number of teachers and from those teachers, the number of principal teachers who retired each year.

Table 2 shows the number of teachers and principals who retired on a per county basis.

Information distinguishing teaching principals from other category of principal teachers is not recorded on my Department databases.

Table 1- Primary School Teacher Retirements 2015-2017

Table 2- Primary School Teacher Retirements per county 2015-2017