Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the pathway forward for a teacher (details supplied) who was employed in a principal release post in a school (details supplied) in the school years 2020/2021 and 2021/2022, and who expected a contract of indefinite duration in the 2022/2023 school year, but was told that they are no longer entitled to a CID due to her Department erroneously granting two principal release posts to the same school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49955/22]

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 term contracts were completed, there is no entitlement to CID. Circular 0023/2015 does not allow for such service to be transferred to another school.

There was no error in the granting of two principal release posts in the same 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 were broken at the end 2021/22. 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.