A retired teacher is asking the High Court to quash the Teaching Council’s decision to refer to its disciplinary committee a “purported complaint” alleging that he sexually exploited an underage teenager more than a decade ago.

The man, who cannot be identified due to court orders, says gardaí sent a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on the matter and no prosecution was directed. The man fully denies the allegations, which he says are “false and malicious”.

He says the claims arose out of a Garda vetting disclosure as part of the teacher’s professional registration renewal. A garda told the council in 2021 that a male in his early 20s made an official complaint to gardaí in 2016 about the teacher regarding alleged events dating back more than a decade.

The man says the vetting disclosure stated that allegations had been made to gardaí that he “engaged in sexual exploitation of a child aged of teenage years” on unknown dates over a two-year period.

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The council’s investigating committee found last October that there was a prima facie case of professional misconduct to warrant further action being taken on the complaint which, the man says, has never been verified. The man alleges the...

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