Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the sharing of teachers by schools (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10230/19]

Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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Circular 0015/2019 which is available on my Department's website introduces a new scheme for the 2019/20 school year to allow post primary schools to share teachers in priority subjects.  The aim of this scheme is to alleviate some of the challenges schools have faced in recruiting teachers by allowing two schools to work together to recruit a teacher for a job and employ them on more hours than if they were teaching in just one school. 

The recruitment and appointment of teachers to fill teaching posts is a matter for individual school authorities, subject to procedures agreed under Section 24(3) of the Education Act, 1998 (as amended by the Education (Amendment) Act, 2012.