Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 10 Mar 1998

Vol. 488 No. 4

Written Answers - Teacher Salaries.

Ivor Callely

Ceist:

319 Mr. Callely asked the Minister for Education and Science the basis upon which the Department differentiates between temporary wholetime teachers in the community sector and in the voluntary sector in relation to incremental credit for service; if, in view of this anomaly, his Department will rectify the situation by treating all temporary wholetime teachers equally; the consideration, if any, he has given this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6410/98]

Minister for Education and Science (Mr. Martin)

Temporary wholetime teachers employed in secondary schools are awarded incremental credit in respect of relevant non teaching service and teaching service abroad. Teachers employed by vocational education committees and in community-comprehensive schools are granted incremental credit in respect of such service from the date of appointment in a permanent capacity.

A claim has been lodged to the Conciliation Council for Teachers to have incremental credit for relevant non teaching service and teaching service abroad granted to temporary teachers.

The claim will be discussed at the Conciliation Council in the near future.

Name	Purpose	Cost 26-6-97-10-3-98
		£
Noel Recruitment	Organisation of recruitment of Employee Assistance Officers for the Employee Assistance Scheme for teachers	19,791*
The CIRCA Group	Implementation of the Public Service Management Act, 1997	No expenditure to date (Estimate — £50,820)*
The CIRCA Group	Support of research and related activity in third-level institutions	4,750
Quest Computing Ltd.	Development of report programmes for the Post-Primary Teachers Personnel System	4,356
Children's Centre, Trinity College, Dublin	Evaluation of Crime Awareness Programme within Youthreach	8,000
The CIRCA Group	Assignment in relation to the establishment of a fund for the support of research and related activity in third-level institutions	4,658
Dr. Maurice Bric, National University of Ireland	Options to improve the support of research in the Humanities and Social Sciences	4,500
Mr. Séamus Ó hUallacháin	Assignment for the Interim Review Group for Institute of Technology Sector	1,700
Mr. Séamus Ó hUallacháin	Expenditure Review of the Linguistics Institute of Ireland	2,500
Hay MLS Management	Preparation of Competency Model for Director Post, National Centre for Technology in Education	1,800
Quest Computing Ltd.	Programmes for the purposes of validating data for the Leaving Certificate Applied	5,008
Quest Computing Ltd.	Software reports for the Post Primary Teachers database and installation of software	4,840
Sequel Technology Ltd.	Pilot project to upgrade ORACLE based software	2,180
Gartner Group UK Ltd.	Expert IT advisory service to the Department	7,619
Mr. Dermot Rochford, Staff Relations Services	Review of functions and administrative-organisational structures of the amalgamated vocational education committees (amalgamation of the five Town vocational education committees with their respective counties)	18,500
IPA Consultants	Review of salary levels for Registrars and Secretaries/Financial Controllers in the Institutes of Technology	12,000
LAN Communications	Freedom of Information Records Management Report	33,117

*Indicates where the tendering and/or appointment process had commenced prior to 26 June, 1997.