An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2021-10-19
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

The Minister for Education is dealing with this issue in terms of recruitment, retention and substitution. We do not want to disadvantage children with special needs either in terms of losing their provision to substitute teachers and the banking of hours. This is something that must be worked out and worked through. There is a reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio due to the increase of close to 1,000 SET teachers again this year. There will be a significant recruitment of primary school teachers into the system in addition to recruitment in mainstream schools and schools in the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools, DEIS, scheme. It is challenging in the context of Covid but we are working in every creative way we can to improve the substitution side.

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