Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 18 January 2023
658. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Education the reason home tutors who provided tuition under the July provision summer programme have not been paid; if she will clarify when payments will now be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63167/22]
View answerUnder the terms of my Department’s Home-Based Summer Programme, the parent/guardian of eligible engage a teacher/SNA for the purposes of providing tuition or care support during the school summer holidays. The Department then provides funding to the tutor on receipt of fully completed Grant Claim Forms after the tuition/care support has been delivered. The closing date for receipt of the Grant Claim Form for the 2022 programme was 06 September 2022. Claim forms that were correctly completed in line with the published terms of the scheme were processed in date order. The first payments issuing on 29 September, and payments continued to issue on a fortnightly basis thereafter. In total, claims in respect of 13,700 children have been paid out. 6,687 teachers and 2,031 SNAs have been paid for their work on the programme.
A very small number of claims have queries outstanding and staff on the Summer Programme team are engaging with the tutors concerned to progress these claims as soon as possible.
