John O'Mahony (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 986: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of supervisors currently employed in post primary schools in County Mayo; the rate of payment made to such supervisors; and the financial contribution her Department makes to their payment. [1615/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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An agreement was reached between the managerial authorities of second level schools, my Department and the Teachers' Unions for the provision of funding for supervision and substitution duties in Post Primary schools in 2002, and has been in operation since then.

Under the agreed scheme, schools are given an allocation of hours for substitution and supervision each year, based on the number of whole time equivalent teachers in the school. Permanent, Fixed Term wholetime and Regular part-time teachers can participate in the scheme.

Where teachers do not take up the total hours allocated for supervision/substitution, a grant for the balance of hours is issued to the management authority. The school Management may offer the balance of hours of substitution / supervision available to substitute and/or part-time staff or employ personnel solely for supervision purposes and pay them out of this grant.

Under the terms of the Supervision / Substitution scheme grants totalling €444,423.02 were paid to schools in Co. Mayo in the 2006/2007 school year and the management authorities were entitled to employ substitute or part-time staff at a rate of €46.97 per hour, or non-teaching staff at a rate of €20.93 per hour. My Department has no record of the numbers of supervisors employed directly by school managements.

The rate of payment for the 2007/2008 schools year is €46.97 per hour for teaching staff and €21.35 for non-teaching staff.