Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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Question 18: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he collates the pay, pension and allowances data of vocational educational committee employees. [10044/12]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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My Department determines the rates of pay and allowances paid to employees of vocational education committees and allocates funding to each committee to allow these employees be paid. As of 31st December 2011 there were 12,611 whole time equivalent (WTE) employees in the VEC sector whose posts were funded from my Department's pay allocation, approximately 85% of whom were teachers or instruction staff.

In 2011 the cost of funding these posts was €786m approximately. This figure includes the cost of pay and allowances.

As of 31st December 2011 there were approximately 5,500 former VEC employees on the pension payrolls. The estimated cost of these in 2011, including lump sums paid to new retirees, was of the order of €184 million.