Over 950 teaching positions are currently vacant in schools across the country.
A survey from the INTO, which covered 40% of primary and secondary schools, found 195 permanent posts and 756 long term temporary or substitute jobs are unfilled.
That number is set more than to double after Christmas, with a further 1,816 vacancies expected by next January.
General Secretary of the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation, Donegal's John Boyle, says its a crisis situation:
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