Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Public Accounts Committee

Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances

12:10 pm

Mr. Pat Burke:

At post-primary level, 37 hours is available to both. Individual schools make their own call on whether the needs for supervision are greater than the needs for substitution. There can be different balances within schools. Schools may have circumstances such that they do not need a great deal of yard supervision. In that context, a greater amount of the fund is available in that school for substitution purposes.