Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy and will make a couple of other observations. The cost of this deal have been estimated at €2.6 million assuming all tutors assimilate. However, the actual cost will be dependent on the numbers of tutors who opt to assimilate into the new grade. We have asked the ETBs to maintain records to facilitate the identification of the costs.

The Deputy asked about the future.

The implementation of these arrangements will be fully reviewed after 12 months to ensure that we can learn from it. I also want to mention that this option does not apply to tutors engaged in adult self-financing programmes in FET colleges or those who are ineligible for access to public service pension schemes. There is more detail on that which I will forward to the Deputy afterwards.

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