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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (26 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 370 of 18 December 2012, if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) regarding public sector pensions. [9588/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: RAPID Programme (26 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of those streets in Dublin that are in RAPID areas. [10241/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (26 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to allow Polio survivors to qualify for a medical card automatically and if he is considering categorising Polio as an illness under the long term illness scheme. [10243/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (26 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: To ask the Minister for Health if a graduate programme for speech and language therapists will be introduced in 2013. [10242/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (27 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will clarify the meaning of guidelines regarding waivers in relation to change of use requests in planning applications (details supplied). [10665/13]

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Chairman. As I had to attend a number of votes, I apologise if I go over any territory that has already been discussed. If I do, please tell me and I will move on to something else. Returning to something that was said at the beginning when Deputy Gerald Nash was asking about the overpayments to teachers, the Secretary General spoke about the difficulty in managing the payroll...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: What does that mean?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Does that mean that every two weeks 10,000 teachers are sick for a period of time?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: What percentage of the comers and goers are a result of sick leave in terms of substitution?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Has that question never been asked? Ten thousand is-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: At second level on a particular week there is a requirement for substitution because the geography teacher is not in. More often than not another teacher will come in and take that class, whether qualified or not. He or she will sit in and either the students will do what they wish or the teacher will try to take them through the next chapter as best they can in their studies. In that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: If we were to see a change in that substitution arrangement, given that talks are ongoing, that would change the system.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: It will reduce complication in the payroll system.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: In terms of a primary school's autonomy when it needs to substitute, if a teacher is sick in a given week or for a week, what is the budgetary arrangement? Where a primary school teacher pays for a sub to come in, does the pay come from a particular fund?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: The budget is not devolved but the decision by the principal in a primary school to take on a substitute teacher rests with him or her.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Who provides the substitute cover for the first day?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Does the school have a budget to call somebody down the road who is on the list to cover for the first day?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: On the second and third day, the school is allowed bring in a substitute teacher.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Does the principal make a telephone call to somebody he or she knows? How does the system work?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: I know that, because young teachers have come to me about this. They will stay around in the morning waiting for a telephone call. If it does not come by a certain time they do not get work that day, and if it does then they are off, perhaps to one of the schools they have had to lobby in their area, which they can get to on time. That, essentially, is how the system works. It is very...