In accordance with my Department's recently published Circular on Supplementary Assignment Arrangements for Special Needs Assistants (Circular 37/2013), all SNAs who received notification of the termination of their employment due to redundancy from 1st May 2013 are deemed to be members of a Supplementary Assignment Panel for SNAs. As a result, unless an SNA opts out of this Panel, the processing of new applications for redundancy payments will not commence until after 1st June 2014. To date, no applications to opt out of the Panel have been received by my Department.