Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of unqualified teachers who have taught classes in schools in Cork and Dublin in the 2023-2024 school year; and the length of time each was teaching, in tabular form. [27452/24]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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In the 2021/2022 academic year (the most recent year for which data is available) there were 54.61 Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) teachers in Cork teaching subjects for which they were unqualified to teach.

In the 2021/2022 academic year there were 430.97 WTE teachers in Dublin teaching subjects for which they were unqualified to teach.

The source of this data is the 2021/2022 Survey of Unmet Demand in which schools were asked:

"Were there any subjects for which permanent whole-time / temporary whole-time / regular part-time teaching vacancies arose for 2021/2022, which were advertised AND for which you were unable to recruit a registered teacher to teach the subject?"

and:

"Are there any subjects, not already included in your response to [the question above], for which teaching posts were filled by teachers not registered to teach the subject in 2020/2021 and which continue to be filled by teachers not registered to teach the subject in 2021/2022?"