Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)
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509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to restore the yard duty payment for teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44697/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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Under the Haddington Road Agreement (HRA), the supervision and substitution (S&S) allowance was discontinued with effect from the commencement of the 2013/14 school year. Since that date, participation in the S&S scheme is compulsory and all teachers are required to provide 43 hours of S&S duties per annum. A limited opt out facility was made available to post-primary teachers in return for a pay reduction which is applied to the teacher's salary until retirement.

An extension to the HRA known as the Lansdowne Road Agreement has been accepted by the Public Services Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. A gross additional payment equal to the S&S allowance (€1,592) is due to be included in the incremental scale in two moieties for teachers covered by that Agreement - half in the school year 2016/17 and the second half in the school year 2017/18.