Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has guidelines for time off for State employees such as teachers who are elected members of the local authority and are attending official local authority business. [46044/13]

Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department's guidelines for time off for employees such as teachers who are elected members of the local authority and are attending official local authority business. [46043/13]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 262 and 290 together.

Where a teacher in a primary or post primary school is an elected member of a local authority, paid absence of up to ten school days in a school year may be availed of in order to attend meetings, but only where such meetings are held during school opening hours. Substitute cover in such instances is not paid by my Department.