Emer Currie (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider establishing an in-school management team appropriate to the size of a school’s staff (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65912/25]

Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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I recognise the key role school leadership in improving educational outcomes by creating a positive school climate and environment as well as motivating and empowering educators and learners within their school communities.

The Department has committed to annually revising the allocation of Posts of Responsibility to take into account retirements during the school year which has ensured that the current level of Posts of Responsibility (POR’s) are maintained in the school system. New POR threshold tables are produced each year to distribute these PORs equitably across all school. Currently one in three teachers hold a promotional post within our schools.

Recent Budgets have provided for an additional 1000 posts of responsibility at both primary level and post-primary level. 500 AP II posts were allocated to primary schools in the 2024/25 school year. For the 2025/26 school year, the equivalent of 500 AP II posts is being distributed as 110 AP I and 251 AP II for the purposes of fully restoring all PORs in primary schools.

Any further improvement would have to be considered in the context of the overall budgetary process.