Transfer of 170 surplus teachers to save €10m [Independent.ie]
- Published: 22 March 2011
UP to 170 second-level teachers will be moved to other schools within a 50km radius under the terms of the Croke Park deal.
The transfer of the teachers will save the Exchequer around €10m a year, as they will fill vacancies in other schools that would otherwise be filled by hiring new teachers or keeping temporary teachers on the payroll.
A Teachers' Union of Ireland (TUI) ballot of members in second-level schools is expected to show a majority of them in favour of the agreement when the results are released tomorrow evening.
Union members have been warned by the Department of Education and Skills that the only alternative to Croke Park is redundancies.
