Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I raise the issue of lower paid teachers working in non-casual substitute teaching positions. We know they do not get paid for any holidays. They are badly treated but worse than that they do not get their proper pay at all, because since before Christmas, injury has been added to insult for them by the fact that this cohort of teachers has been subject to emergency tax deductions. Substitute teachers are put into the tax system and are restarted in their position every two weeks. One teacher told me she got €400 for two weeks work. It is happening throughout the country to hundreds of teachers. Will the Department of Education and Skills explain how this was allowed to happen and, more importantly, take steps to remedy the problem and ensure that excessive tax deductions are returned to those employees who are living hand to mouth? Worse still, the Department will not directly answer the teachers about their predicament.

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