Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Question 199: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding human resource policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10918/12]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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The Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Act 2005 devolved responsibility for the management of civil servants from the Government to Ministers and heads of office to reflect modern human resource practices. As such, the Act applies to civil servants, rather than public servants as a whole.

Department of Education and Skills Circular 0040/2011 sets out the new pay scales for new appointees to teaching following Budget 2011. As part of Budget 2011 all new appointees to the entry grades of the public service must start at the first point of the relevant pay scale with effect from 1 January 2011.

Professional service in one part of the public sector does not automatically provide for an individual to access separate salary grades for a separate profession within another sector. This includes a voluntary move from the health to the education sector (nursing to teaching), and also within sectors - for example a lecturer who commenced employment as a teacher in the primary or post-primary school sector after 1 January 2011 would also start on the first point of the revised salary scales.

Teachers who hold non-teaching service relevant to the teaching post that they are first appointed to may apply for the award of Incremental Credit for this service. Details of this scheme are available on my Department's website www.education.ie.