Michael Noonan (Limerick East, Fine Gael)
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Question 714: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will ensure an early and favourable adjudication on appeals by persons (details supplied) in County Limerick to the terms of fixed term teaching contracts they have been offered to ensure their contract of indefinite duration offers them 22 hours teaching per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26122/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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In September 2005, the Education Partners reached a transitional agreement on certain arrangements for the implementation of the Protection of Employees (Fixed Term Work) Act 2003 in the education sector. Under the Transitional Agreement certain individuals were to be awarded contracts of indefinite duration and a system for adjudication of appeals from aggrieved individuals was to be established. The independent third party adjudication system is voluntary and intended to facilitate a quick, efficient resolution of disputes arising from the award or refusal to award a contract of indefinite duration.

Mr Peter Ward, Senior Counsel, is the Adjudicator. The files in relation to the two individuals mentioned have been with Mr Ward since the 22nd of June 2006. It is expected that decisions will issue on these two cases in the near future.