Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of each of the teaching supply panels; the number of teachers on each panel in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3418/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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As part of the COVID-19 supports provided to schools in 2020, additional funding of €41.2 million was allocated to provide primary schools with substitute staff

This funding allowed for the expansion of the Substitute Teacher Supply Panel from a pilot scheme consisting of 6 base schools to 132 Substitute Teacher Supply Panels nationwide, with almost 380 newly appointed Supply Panel teachers employed, providing substitute cover to over 2,500 schools across the country.

Since the beginning of the current school year, 300 additional teachers have been added to the Substitute Teacher Supply Panels in response to the current difficulty in accessing substitute for teacher absences. Currently, there are 144 Supply Panels with 675 teachers allocated to the scheme.

The most recent data on the current Supply Panel clusters is attached.