Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 173: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the entry grades and salary scales of new entrant teachers affected by the Department's Circular 0003/2012. [6648/12]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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In his address to Dáil Éireann on December 5th 2011 the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform announced that Public Service bodies will have to achieve a reduction of 5% in the cost of allowances and premium payments in 2012. In order to achieve the necessary reduction, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is conducting a review of allowances and premium payments across the Public Service.

Pending the outcome of this review, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has advised my Department that delegated sanction for the payment of allowances to new beneficiaries is withdrawn with effect from 1st February 2012.

Circular letter 3/2012 applies to the awarding of allowances to all teachers, including new entrant teachers, who become eligible for receipt of the allowance in question on or after 1st February 2012. No additions to the common basic pay scale may be paid to new beneficiaries, pending the outcome of the review by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The only exception to the prohibition on the awarding of new allowances is Principal and Deputy Principal allowances.

The common basic pay scale for new entrant teachers remains at the level announced by the Minister for Finance in his budget statement to Dáil Éireann on 7th December 2010. A copy of the scale is included below.

TEACHERS' COMMON BASIC SCALE

New Entrants post 1/1/11 1 € 27,814 2 € 28,775 3 € 29,737 4 € 30,702 5 € 32,198 6 € 33,168 7 € 34,136 8 € 36,576 9 € 37,795 10 € 39,251 11 € 40,700 12 € 42,160 13 € 43,380 14 € 44,996 15 € 44,996 16 € 44,996 17 € 47,225 18 € 47,225 19 € 47,225 20 € 47,225 21 € 50,170 22 € 50,170 23 € 50,170 24 € 50,170 25 € 53,423