Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a teacher (details supplied) in County Mayo can be approved for a contract of indefinite duration despite the error made by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28363/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The requirements a primary teacher needs to meet in qualifying for a contract of indefinite duration (CID) are set out in the Department of Education circular 23/2015.  Eligibility for a CID includes that a teacher should have completed two consecutive fixed term contracts with the same employer and that there should be a viable post with no objective grounds in the year the CID is being awarded.

As there is not a viable post here in this school where the consecutive fixed contracts were completed, there is no entitlement to a CID. Circular 23/2015 does not allow for such service to be transferred to another school.

Circular 0026/2022 sets out the arrangements for principal release days for schools with teaching principals for the 2022/23 school year.

All principal release day clusters in place for the 2021/22 school year will be broken at the end of this year. Schools now have the opportunity to cluster their principal release days into full-time principal release time posts for the 2022/23 school year, in accordance with circular 0026/2022.