Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 3:

In page 6, line 18, after “Oireachtas” to insert “and shall be immediately informed of this”.

In fact this is my amendment in the name of Deputy Daly. The point of the amendment is that, as I have been informed, if someone is not registered or is removed or suspended from the register of the Teaching Council he or she is not paid, and teachers often do not know this. They are working for weeks and they do not know that they have not been paid and that they are not registered. They discover many weeks afterwards that they have not got paid because they were not registered or they had been removed from the register for some reason. While it is reasonable that they should not be paid, they should be informed immediately that this is about to happen to allow them remedy the situation if it is simply an omission that they should have registered, but it is not fair if people are not being paid and discover after the fact that it is because they are not on the register. It seems reasonable that there should be a requirement to inform the teacher. Ideally, when the decision is made that their pay will be stopped they should be told immediately that is the case.