Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which a redundancy calculation was decided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27942/17]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The person in question was paid a redundancy lump sum based on her regular weekly earnings for the 12 months prior to the date of redundancy in respect of her employment for the period 4th October 2004 to 31st August 2015 in line with the provisions of the Redundancy Acts 1967 - 2016.

Prior to the post being made redundant the number of hours allocated to the post had decreased from 32 to 16 hours per week from 1st September 2014.  A claim was submitted by the person for compensation for loss of hours in respect of the period 1st September 2006 to 31st August 2014 and that claim was paid on 20 November 2014.