School staffing allocations and timetables
Quill asked when second-level principals would learn which teachers and subjects would be affected so they could plan the next school year. O’Rourke acknowledged the deadline and said participants were working to notify schools in time; the remaining turns concerned dissatisfaction with the reply and moving on to the next question.
With less than a month to go to the summer holidays can I ask the Minister when the principals in these second level schools will be told what subject teachers will be lost to them due to this voluntary redundancy scheme so that they can plan their timetables for the next school year and tell their students, especially first and fifth year students, what subjects will be offered to them in the incoming school year?
Comment on this
All partners to the Central Review Committee are aware of the time constraint which is imposed upon them. When the talks began that was clearly laid out in front of everyone. The bodies involved in the talks are anxious that they would meet a deadline which would enable the schools in question to receive the notification of their allocations in time for the sanction, appointment and retention of teachers. That view is very well known and I am hopeful that all involved will work towards it.
