Gerard Murphy (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 235: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason arrears were not awarded to teachers. [21739/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The management authorities of schools must employ qualified teachers for casual substitute and part-time teaching where possible. Where a suitably qualified teacher is not available, they may engage an unqualified person while continuing to actively seek a qualified replacement. Prior to December 2001, all part-time and substitute teachers in post-primary schools were paid a standard hourly rate of pay. With the introduction of the Protection of Employees (Part-Time Work) Act 2001, the Department introduced separate rates of payment for qualified and unqualified substitute and part-time teachers. Interim arrears backdated to December 2001 were paid by the schools to qualified substitute and part-time teachers, for example, teachers who hold a degree with teaching subjects and a higher diploma in education.