Written answers
Thursday, 25 January 2024
Department of Education and Skills
School Staff
Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of unfilled permanent teaching positions in primary schools for the 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school years, broken down by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3461/24]
Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of unfilled permanent teaching positions in post-primary schools for the 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school years, broken down by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3462/24]
Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of unfilled fixed term teaching positions in post-primary schools for the 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school years, broken down by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3463/24]
Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of unfilled fixed term teaching positions in primary schools for the 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-3023 and 2023-3024 school years, broken down by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3464/24]
Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of unfilled maternity cover teaching positions in primary schools for the 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school years, broken down, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3465/24]
Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of unfilled maternity cover teaching positions in post-primary schools for the 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school years, broken down by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3466/24]
Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 226 to 231, inclusive, together.
The recruitment and appointment of teachers to fill teaching posts is a matter for individual school authorities, subject to procedures agreed under Section 24 of the Education Act 1998 (as amended by the Education (Amendment) Act 2012). In that regard there are more than 3,700 individual employers (boards of management of primary schools and post primary schools, as well as ETBs).
While my Department does not collect data on the recruitment by individual employers, an analysis of the Department’s payroll system is being undertaken to generate statistics on the teacher workforce across the country for the 2023-2024 school year and will use this for reporting on workforce statistics going forward. This will include statistics on the Full Time Equivalents (FTE), permanent and fixed contracts, with breakdowns possible by County. This work began recently and is ongoing, the relevant data for 2023-2024 is expected to be available in the near future.
Statistical information on the headcount of teachers is already produced in a similar way, and is available on My Departments website www.gov.ie/en/publication/c97fbd-teacher-statistics/.
These statistics are extracted from the mentioned payroll databases using a single extract (30th June) each year and includes contracted and casual teachers.
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