Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 15 November 2012
116. Deputy Brian Walsh asked the Minister for Education and Skills when changes regarding newly qualified teachers' pay, under which new entrants start at point four of the salary scale, will come into effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50678/12]
View answerThe most significant adjustment to teacher pay arising from the recent Government decision on allowances is that new entrant teachers will not receive qualification allowances but will start on a new salary scale, the first point of which is equivalent to the fourth point of the existing scale. This new salary scale will apply in the case of all teachers who are new appointees to teaching on or after 1 February 2012.
Where a person gave service in a teaching position in an Oireachtas funded post before 1 February 2012, s/he will not be regarded as a new appointee to teaching. However, where a teacher who is retired and is in receipt of a pension returns to teaching on or after 1 February 2012, s/he will be appointed to the first point of the new salary scale and no qualification allowances or incremental credit will be payable.
