Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a teacher (details supplied) will be put on a pay grade appropriate to their experience and qualifications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15140/19]

Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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The position is that the recruitment and appointment of teachers to fill teaching posts is a matter for the individual school authority, subject to procedures agreed under Section 24 of the Education Act 1998 (as amended by the Education (Amendment) Act 2012).

Circular Letter 0031/2011, issued by my Department, states that each employer shall ensure that a person proposed for appointment to a teaching post for which salary grant is being sought must be registered with the Teaching Council and have qualifications appropriate to the sector and suitable to the post for which he/she is to be employed.

The teacher, referred to by the Deputy, is secondary trained and registered under Route 2 post primary with the Teaching Council. The teacher is therefore not qualified to teach in the primary sector and in accordance with Circular Letter 0031/2011 is not eligible to be paid the qualified rate of pay for that sector.