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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 5 Oct 1999

Vol. 508 No. 3

Written Answers - Remedial Teachers.

Richard Bruton

Ceist:

361 Mr. R. Bruton asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will amend the rules governing travel allowance for remedial teachers serving a number of schools whereby either their home would be used as the base for calculating the mileage travelled from school to school or, alternatively, a flat rate allowance would be paid to those where the location of their home being closer to a satellite school rather than their base school results in minimal eligibility for travel expenses under the current rules. [18785/99]

Under present regulations, remedial teachers serving a group of schools are attached to a base school for administrative purpose. Travelling expenses, at the appropriate civil service rates of motor mileage allowance, are paid to such teachers in respect of the use of their cars for travelling to the schools to which they are assigned, other than their base school. Travel expenses are not allowed in respect of travelling between the teachers' home and their base schools.

Payment for travelling from home to schools, other than the base school to which the teachers are assigned, are made in respect of any distance travelled which is in excess of the distance which would be covered in travelling from their homes to their base school.

Given the number of remedial teachers who are now serving groups of schools; the variety of geographical arrangements which can be involved; and the need for consistency in approaching the associated travel costs issue, I am satisfied that the adoption of the base school approach outlined above represents the most suitable way of dealing with this matter. I have no plans at present to alter these arrangements.

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