Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Question 124: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a redundancy payment will issue to a person (details supplied). [29517/11]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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An application for redundancy in respect of the person referred to by the Deputy was received by my Department on 9 September 2011. Redundancy applications are processed in date order of receipt. Every effort is being made to process these applications as quickly as possible. Applications received in December 2010 and January 2011 are currently being processed. The priority of the Department over the past two months has been to ensure replacement teachers and special needs assistants being appointed for the 2011-12 school year are placed on payroll for payment. This process has now been completed. Extra resources are currently being assigned to the redundancy unit to try and ensure special needs assistants who have been made redundant will have their claims for payment processed as quickly as possible. My Department will also now prioritise the processing of redundancy applications from those SNAs who have not obtained alternative employment in a non-teaching capacity in primary, secondary, community or comprehensive schools in the current school year.