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- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Can they supervise classes in primary schools?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: In primary school it is supervision.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Then we are talking about yard duty.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: During lunch break?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: It is just to cover the breaks and to go into the yard to supervise children and to ensure everything is okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Obviously someone has to do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Up to 2000 that task was seen as part of the job and a teacher would be called upon to do it once a week or every two weeks. When I was in school I can remember a teacher being out in the yard holding her cup of coffee and eating her sandwich. The teachers did yard duty on a rotational basis and that was how it worked.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: They would not have seen it as part of their core responsibilities as a teacher in a school.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: In terms of teachers' salaries and their increase over time, and it is important we pay teachers enough because we want good people in the profession, was it not seen as coming under the salary? Is it not accepted under the salary at that point? The Department could have said that it was expanding the contract and not taking the grace and favour approach, that these were part of core...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Looking back at these things, we are trying to find greater flexibility in the workplace and greater cost savings. Some 80% of the education budget is locked into pay and we cannot consider it in the cuts we are trying to make. Is this not a concession the Department could make, potentially saving €100 million? Before 2002, until ten years ago, it was part of the responsibilities of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: The supervision and substitution allowance has been moved into core pay for new entrants.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: If over 95% of people are prepared to do it, we can fairly say they understand it is part of the job. In negotiating new contracts, I would not be so worried about the 5% or less given that the majority of the workforce accepts this is something that must be done. They are happy to do it. In the provision for the teachers coming in, the allowance and the extra hours they have decided to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: What does Mr. Ó Foghlú mean when he says the Department reduced the categories?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Coming back to supervision at primary level, has anything changed if there was concern that teachers were not meeting the full 37 hours in the year? The Department has increased the number of hours for which teachers are available but perhaps they are not being called on to fill the hours.
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Regarding the breakdown of the allowance, €118 million, does it amount to €50 million on primary supervision and the remainder on substitution at post-primary level?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: It is important to have the flexibility at the school level. In second level schools, is it a case of substitution when a colleague is absent? If a third-year teacher is absent, the students are put in the library and the teacher sits with them for that period of time. If a teacher signs up for the hours, has the number of hours been increased to 40 for new entrants?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: If an existing teacher agrees to do 37 hours of that kind of extra work in the year, will he or she get this additional payment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Are we looking at re-examining that allowance for existing beneficiaries?
- Public Accounts Committee: Department of Education and Skills - Review of Allowances (24 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: Thank you, Chairman.
- Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2012)
Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Minister and the Chief Whip for facilitating the House to provide time for this important debate on the economy. I have spoken previously about the importance of having an open budgetary process. Since it came into power the Government has been more transparent than any previous Government in terms of the information that has been provided on the economy and where we hope to go...