The Department of Education and Skills have recently updated their website with information on Redeployment Panels.
The present situation is that there are currently 286 surplus permanent and CID holding teachers remaining on panels the Department does not expect to be in a position until 10 June 2011 (at the earliest) to start granting authority to schools to commence normal recruitment. The Department may decide at that stage to prioritise schools that have fully cooperated with the redeployment process and in respect of panel areas where redeployment has been facilitated in an effective manner.
Ongoing Department discussions with the relevant education partners also include devising whatever additional arrangements are necessary to facilitate the redeployment of any remaining permanent and CID holding teachers (including the 21 surplus permanent teachers that do not currently have access to a redeployment panel).
Fixed Term Vacancies:
It is the intention of the Department to restore recruitment from fixed-term teachers on the main panels, supplementary panels or public advertisement at the earliest possible opportunity. This however is unlikely to occur until, following discussion with the relevant education partners, arrangements have been devised that will enable the redeployment of any permanent and CID holding teachers still to be redeployed.
It should be noted that the next update will be placed on the website on Wednesday 25th May 2011.
For a link to the full update please click on to Panel Update 20th May 2011
To log on to the breakdown of panels, please log on to Panel lists