Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 222: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when redundancy payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17. [21319/12]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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5A redundancy application from the person referred to by the Deputy was received by my Department on the 9th November 2011. Applications are processed in date order of receipt and every effort is being made to process these applications as quickly as possible. Applications received in October 2011 are currently being processed.

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 223: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delays in many former special needs assistants receiving redundancy payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21320/12]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Extra resources have been assigned to the Redundancy Unit to ensure that Special Needs Assistants that have been made redundant would have their claims for payment processed as quickly as possible. The assignment of the staff has helped to reduce the period of the backlog significantly. Applications received in October 2011 are currently being processed in date order of receipt and every effort is being made, within the resources available, to process these applications as quickly as possible. The Deputy will appreciate that in the context of the employment control framework it is only possible to reassign limited staffing resources from within the existing staff cohort of my Department to deal with redundancy payments whilst at the same time ensuring that other priority functions such the payment of teachers on a fortnightly basis continues.