Cecilia Keaveney (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 140: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if secretaries in national schools receive a weekly salary during summer and public holidays; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24072/04]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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School secretaries in certain primary schools, employed under the 1978-79 scheme are paid a salary throughout the year, including holiday periods.

In the case of all other secretaries in primary schools, the arrangement is that each school receives a grant from my Department for the provision of secretarial and other ancillary services. It is a matter for each school to determine how best to meet its secretarial requirements. My Department has no direct role in the pay and conditions of service, including pay for holiday periods, of secretaries employed directly by schools under these arrangements.