Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for restructuring teachers' pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43086/12]

John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)
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To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline his ideas for restructuring teachers' pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43049/12]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 99 and 109 together.

As the Deputy will be aware, the outcome of the allowances review has involved a restructuring of the pay scale for new entrant teachers. Henceforth, qualification allowances will not be payable to such teachers and they will commence on a new scale at a point equivalent to the fourth point of the existing scale.