Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 25: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the net cost to the Exchequer of pay increments to teaching staff; if he will provide in a tabular format the total incremental amount received by each salary grade and the corresponding grade salary. [10046/12]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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The cost to the Exchequer of paying increments to teaching staff employed in primary schools in 2011 was €14.48 million, and €4.84 million to teaching staff in secondary and community / comprehensive schools.

In respect of Vocational Educational Committees the information requested by the Deputy is not held within my Department. As each individual VEC is a separate employer it would involve an inordinate amount of administrative time to compile.

The payment of increments is not related to salary grades. Teachers are paid on a 25 point common basic salary scale which ranges in value from €30,904 to €59,359 for those whose first appointment was prior to 1st January 2011. For those teachers whose first appointment was on or after 1st January 2011, the common basic salary scale ranges from €27,814 - €53,423.

All teachers appointed for the first time on or after 1st January 2011 commence employment at the first point of the salary scale and move up one point for each year of service.

Teachers whose first appointment was prior to 1st January 2011 also move up one point for each year of service, those employed as Primary teachers generally commenced employment on the second point of the salary scale whilst Post-Primary teachers generally commenced on the third point.