Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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Question 525: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a primary school teacher (details supplied) in County Dublin will receive their full holiday pay; and if she will give them the maximum support on this matter. [31436/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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In order for a temporary teacher to receive holiday pay for July and August of the school year in which he or she is working, the teacher must commence employment as a temporary teacher during the month of September or on the first working day of October.

A teacher who commences employment between October and 1 April will receive summer pay retrospectively if he or she secures a temporary-permanent contract in September of the following school year. In the event of a teacher not securing a post in September, he or she will be entitled to holiday pay at a rate of 8% of the hours worked, subject to a maximum of 20 days in a school year.

A temporary teacher taking up employment from 1 April will receive payment for July and August, one year after they take up the post.

The teacher referred to by the Deputy worked as a temporary teacher on 4 and 5 October 2005 and commenced employment again as a temporary teacher on 10 October 2005. If this teacher continues to work as a temporary teacher until the end of the school year and secures another temporary-permanent contract for the 2006-07 school year, she will receive payment retrospectively for July and August when she resumes in September 2006.