The Children's Ombudsman has recommended that new procedures be put in place so that teachers could lose their licence to practice if found guilty of misconduct.
The Ombudsman who says that fitness to teach hearings should be introduced immediately.
Teachers can already be fired for misconduct but these hearings would add further punishments.
Senator and former TUI President Gerard Craughwell says that the inquires could feature public hearings which could damage the reputations of teachers and provide little benefit.
"It's my view and it is the view indeed I believe of the unions involved that before any case would get into a public hearing there should be all of the steps taken.
"But we are going through this thing in this country that everything has to be open and transparent, from a government that is anything but open and transparent," he said.
