asked the Minister for Education the teaching and administrative posts under the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee which are held in an acting or temporary capacity; when each post became vacant and when it is proposed to have them filled on a permanent basis.

According to the information which has been made available to my Department, there are 21 teachers employed in an acting or temporary basis under the City of Dublin VEC. The majority of these appointments became operative in the current school year. The main reason for this position is that the appointees do not hold the academic or technical qualifications prescribed for permanent appointment, that they lack the necessary qualifications in Irish or that the need for permanent whole-time appointments has not been fully established to the satisfaction of my Department. It is expected that these posts can be filled on a permanent basis by the opening of the 1979-80 school year.

Two teachers are serving as acting principals and two as acting vice-principals during the secondment of officers to other duties.

There are 14 administrative posts which are filled on an acting or temporary basis. One of these is the post of chief executive officer, which is held by a school principal in an acting capacity, pending the filling of the post in the normal way through the Local Appointments Commission. Two further posts, that of senior clerk and college secretary, which are filled on an acting basis by junior staff, have been readvertised recently and it is expected that permanent appointments can be made soon. The other 11 posts are in the clerk-typist grade in which there are temporary appointments pending the availability of fully qualified candidates.

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