Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the full teaching service records of visiting teachers, who are fully qualified teachers and registered with the Teaching Council as such, will be maintained for pension purposes through her Department and public sector contributory pensions, as heretofore; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8892/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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I have recently announced the establishment of a new Inclusion support Service within the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). The new service will include the Special Education Support Service, the National Behavioural Support Service and the Visiting Teacher Service.

Work has now commenced on issues arising from this decision. If individual members of the services have concerns about such matters they should in the first instance bring them to the attention of their current management.

With regard to pension the position is that the NSCE is part of the civil service and NCSE staff are members of the relevant civil service pension scheme.

The record of pension service of teachers paid through my Department's payroll is held in my Department. Transfer of pensionable service is governed by the Public Service Transfer Network which enables an employee who transfers from one participating public sector employer to another to choose to transfer the earlier service and so be given the pension credit by the new employer, in accordance with relevant legislation.