Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

We have no compulsory redundancy for teachers. I will have to check the detail of the redundancy payments.

The non-teaching staff would probably have been the special needs assistants, SNAs, redundancies. We pay them redundancy if their employment in a school comes to an end. We also have a redeployment panel where they have first rights to apply for further jobs and if they succeed in getting a further job within two years the redundancy is repaid.

As we do not have redundancy payments for teachers I assume payment to the two primary teachers were individual-----