Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)
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Question 411: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide a list of teachers seconded to ICT adviser positions using a virtual school number; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27445/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The ICT advisory service, which forms part of my Department's ICT in schools programme, provides for the employment of ICT advisers attached to the 21 full-time education centres. These advisers provide pedagogical advice and support and technical advice to schools under the general direction of the National Centre for Technology in Education. Of the existing 19 ICT advisers, 17 are teachers who are seconded from the primary or secondary system and who continue to be paid via the teachers payroll systems under the roll numbers of the schools from which they have been seconded. A further two advisers are teachers, who are not seconded from a school and who are paid directly by the education centre which employs them and whose costs, in this regard, are reimbursed by the National Centre for Technology in Education.