Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 11 January 2012
147 Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will receive their redundancy payment; the reason for the delay; the total payment due to the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40947/11]
View answerA redundancy application in respect of the person referred to by the Deputy has been received by my Department and is currently being processed. The person will be contacted directly by the Redundancy Section of my Department as soon as the payment is finalised and ready to issue.
Redundancy applications from Special Needs Assistants are processed by my Department in date order of receipt and every effort is being made to process these applications as quickly as possible. Extra resources have been assigned to the Redundancy Unit to ensure that Special Needs Assistants that have been made redundant will have their claims for payment processed as quickly as possible. My Department is also prioritising the processing of redundancy applications from those SNAs who have not obtained alternative employment in a non teaching capacity in primary, secondary or community / comprehensive schools in the current school year.
