Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 11 April 2017
249. Deputy Mick Wallace asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a person who commenced employment as a Youthreach resource person in 2010 while covering sick leave in late 2010 and early 2011 can have this employment counted as prior service for eligibility for pre-2011 pay scales; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17957/17]
Amharc ar fhreagra254. Deputy Mick Wallace asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a person who commences employment as a Youthreach resource person while covering sick leave is eligible for payment of a degree or diploma allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18056/17]
Amharc ar fhreagraI propose to take Questions Nos. 249 and 254 together.
Circular 0055/2011 (Revised salary scales and allowances for the application of 10% reduction in pay rates and fixed allowances to persons recruited to direct entry (recruitment) grades in the Education Sector with effect from 1 January 2011 for Adult Education Guidance Counsellors and Co-ordinators, Adult Education Guidance Information Officers, Adult Literacy Organisers, Community Education Facilitators, Psychologists (City and Co. Dublin VECs) and Youthreach Resource Persons) sets out in Section 6 the exclusions from the provisions of the circular.
Any queries on the implementation of the arrangements set out in Circular 0055/2011, such as whether the “new-appointee” payscale should apply to an individual should be communicated to the relevant employer in the first instance and then by the employer to the relevant line section of my Department (i.e. External Staff Relations Section) for clarification, giving details of the individual’s previous public service employment, e.g. grade, organisation, pay scale and dates of employment.
