Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills

9:00 am

Mr. Hubert Loftus:

That is correct, but we would be encouraging the tutors to use the Teaching Council list of registered teachers as their mechanism for getting that tutor. What the new payment arrangement for tutors has done is relieved the parents of the administrative burden of making the payments to the tutor and the Department has taken on that administrative burden through the payment of them through the payroll operated by the Department.