Written answers

Tuesday, 28 March 2017

Department of Education and Skills

Third Level Staff

Photo of Joan BurtonJoan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an existing employee within a publicly funded third level institution when transferring roles within the same third level institution is subject to new entrant public service terms and conditions in their new role; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14840/17]

Photo of Richard BrutonRichard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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On 2 December 2010 the then Government approved the reduction by 10% of the salary scale and fixed allowances for new entrants to traditional recruitment grades in the public service.

Public servants who were in permanent or temporary employment in the public service on or before 31 December 2010 are not generally to be regarded as new entrants. Therefore, they should, on employment to a permanent position through open or confined schemes of appointment (or other mechanism) to another Public Service post/position or on employment on a temporary basis (including by way of substitution or on a fixed term contract) in one of the grades affected, be assigned to the appropriate pre-1 January 2011 scale in such a new post/position.

However these arrangements apply only where the person is being employed in the same or an analogous grade/role as their previous public service employment, whether that employment was permanent or temporary. As an example, a person employed as a lecturer who assumes a new lecturing role will remain on the rate applicable before 1 January 2011. However if that person following their first period of employment as a member of the administrative staff obtains a permanent contract of employment as a lecturer in a university, the revised rate at 1 January 2011 applies.

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