Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 106: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding redundancy payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; if he will expedite the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14889/12]

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 30th September 2011.

The Department received a large number of redundancy applications during August and September 2011. Applications received during those months are currently being processed in date order of receipt. Every effort is being made, within the resources available, to process these applications as quickly as possible.

Extra resources were assigned to the Redundancy Unit at the end of October 2011 to ensure that Special Needs Assistants that have been made redundant would have their claims processed as quickly as possible. The Deputy will appreciate, in the context of the employment control framework it is only possible to reassign limited additional staffing resources from within the existing staff cohort of the Department to deal with redundancy payments whilst at the same time ensuring that other priority functions such as the payment of teachers and Special Needs Assistants on a fortnightly basis.

It is expected that the application referred to by the Deputy will be reached for processing by the end of March and any payment due will issue as soon as possible thereafter.