Vol. 477 No. 1
143 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Minister for Education if she will include teachers who worked with the Missions in Africa in relation to the purchasing of pensionable service at the favourable rates proposed in Clause 2 (iii) of Annex 1 of the Programme for Competitiveness and Work package in view of the valuable service they gave from this country. [8511/97]
The revised proposals for agreement on the pay and conditions of teachers under Clause 2 (iii) of Annex 1 of the Programme for Competitiveness and Work include a proposal for the purchase of superannuation purposes of incremental service given by teachers when they were eligible to join the secondary teachers' superannuation scheme but did not do so. The proposals provide for the purchase of such service at the normal contribution rate of 6.5 per cent, 5 per cent for teachers who are not members of the spouses' scheme.
The proposal is confined to actual incremental service given in schools and would not apply to the purchase for superannuation purposes of any other service.
