Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party)
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190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the job share programme for special needs assistants has not been addressed by his Department since the 23 of October, when they promised a final draft for SIPTU; if the National Council for Speech Education and his Department guidelines have been modified towards the issues regarding the 32 hour week of an SNA being a full time post, with some SNA's who will be paid for their half post of 16 hours, based on their old contracts after 2005, and have not been modified since, but the new entrants who will jobshare will only be in receipt of 14 hours 10 minutes pay since the new contract will state only the school day, but not the same time as stated in the post holder SNA's contract; and when this matter will be resolved. [55366/13]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Officials in my Department provided the Unions representing SNAs (IMPACT and SIPTU) with a revised proposal for a job-sharing scheme for Special Needs Assistants on 23 October 2013. Subsequent to this, my officals met with officals from IMPACT and SIPTU on 11 November 2013 in relation to this matter. The unions indicated a difficulty with one aspect of this proposed scheme and this specific issue has now been referred to the Labour Court.