The Education Training Boards routinely employ people by way of non-pay grants, none of whom have public service pension status. The issue of staff funded from non-pay grant payments such as the staff member in question has been, and remains a subject of consideration at central government level.
In view of this fact my Department is not in a position to accord this member of staff access to a public service pension scheme.
This was set out in the member of staff's contract when he/she was initially employed in late 2018. The person was also advised at the time that he/she could be facilitated with a Personal Retirement Savings Account (PRSA) if he/she wished to make contributions into the scheme.