Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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Question 414: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that her Department's secondary salary section is not paying out the bike grant to secondary school teachers until 2011; if her attention has further been drawn to the fact that the reason given is that there are too many secondary teachers and that applications will only be processed once per year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30618/10]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department operates payrolls for the payment of approximately 85,000 serving and retired teaching and non teaching staff on a fortnightly basis. A total of 913 applications for the cycle to work scheme for 2010 were received by the closing date and have been processed for the serving teaching and non teaching staff paid on these payrolls. The applications for the scheme were processed with existing staffing resources.

I am pleased to inform the Deputy that I do intend to allow greater flexibility for application to the scheme in 2011. A Circular outlining the revised terms of the scheme for 2011 will issue in the near future.