Third Level Staff Data

Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Questions (202, 203)

Kathleen Funchion

Question:

202. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of university teaching staff employed on a casual basis. [26636/18]

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Kathleen Funchion

Question:

203. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of university teaching staff paid on an hourly basis. [26637/18]

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Written answers

Minister for Education and Skills

I propose to take Questions Nos. 202 and 203 together.

The data requested by the Deputy is not collected or collated by my Department and is a matter for the Universities as the employers.

However, in 2016 an Expert Group reported on the level of fixed-term and part-time employment in third-level lecturing, this Expert Group was provided for under the Haddington Road Agreement. To inform the Report of the Expert Group on Fixed-Term and Part-Time Employment in Lecturing (also known as the Cush Report) my Department collated data on the level of fixed-term and part-time employment in lecturing in each Institute of Technology and University.

The information collated is in the following table.

University	Headcount	Part-time Permanent	Part-time fixed-term	Full-time fixed-term	Full-time permanent	NOT full-time and permanent
UCD	1036	66	52	80	838	198
UCC	748	60	15	70	603	145
TCD	729	31	36	149	513	216
NUIM	278	4	8	14	252	26
NUIG	2422	160	1659*	13	590	1832
UL	612	34	68	134	376	236
DCU	580	0	155	89	336	244
Total	6405	355	1993	549	3508	2897

Notes:

All numbers in Table 1 are headcounts. The reference date is the end of Q3 2015.

Part-time is defined as working less than full hours on a voluntary basis. Employees who were full time and who have opted for less than full hours voluntarily (e.g. work-sharing, parental leave or shorter working year scheme).

Four employment patterns are identified. Permanent full-time, and three types of “atypical” employment: Permanent part-time, fixed-term part-time and fixed-term full-time.

*The figure of 1659 for part-time and fixed-term provided for NUIG includes a figure of 1646 employees who are described by NUIG as hourly paid (equating to 85.6 FTEs).