Written answers
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Department of Education and Skills
Education and Training Boards Staff
Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ETB's that have a public base of over 500, 750, 1000 and 1200, respectively; the number of ancillary staff designated to each school, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50606/17]
Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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My Department provides each Education and Training Board with an Administrative and Maintenance staffing allocation. When allocating non-teaching (i.e. ancillary) posts in ETB schools, in recent years my Department adopted the following approach as a means of providing a minimum level of staffing for schools during the public service moratorium.
- Schools with enrolments in excess of 250 pupils have an entitlement to 1 Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) School Secretary at Grade III level and 1 WTE Caretaker
- Cleaning Hours are allocated on the basis of 4.5 hours per pupil per annum (p.a.) up to a maximum annual cleaning allocation of 1 Cleaner or 2028 hours and a minimum annual cleaning allocation of 0.25 of a cleaner post or 520 hours. p.a.
- Schools with enrolments below 250 pupils would have an minimum entitlement to 0.5 WTE School Secretary at Grade III level and 0.5 WTE Caretaker
In many schools staffing levels are higher than the above entitlements as staff numbers did not reduce down to the minimum levels during the moratorium.
Based on the latest staffing returns received from the individual ETBs, there are 907.82 WTE non-teaching (i.e. ancillary) staff employed in schools across the ETB Sector as outlined in the tables. The way staffing is allocated to individual ETB schools and colleges and other activities within the ETB scheme is a matter for each ETB, accordingly it is not possible to provide a break-down between individual schools or on a county basis.
If the Deputy requires the information on a school by school or county basis, the relevant ETB will be able to supply the information.
Non-Teaching Maintenance Staffing in ETB Schools
| CDETB | DDLETB | Cork | LCETB | WWETB | GRETB | LMETB | KWETB | CMETB | Donegal | Kerry | KCETB | LOETB | LWETB | MSLETB | Tipperary | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade | WTE | WTE | WTE | WTE | WTE | WTE | WTE | WTE | WTE | WTE | WTE | WTE | WTE | WTE | WTE | WTE | WTE |
| Assistant Caretaker | 0.00 | 5.81 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.81 |
| Assistant Porter | 18.84 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.84 |
| Caretaker | 0.00 | 30.00 | 36.70 | 19.62 | 12.22 | 22.73 | 19.30 | 20.50 | 15.50 | 13.78 | 8.18 | 13.50 | 7.00 | 7.00 | 19.80 | 12.61 | 258.44 |
| Cleaner | 0.00 | 35.42 | 39.03 | 12.59 | 10.49 | 9.46 | 13.08 | 16.45 | 14.03 | 9.49 | 4.86 | 11.78 | 2.00 | 5.60 | 6.32 | 5.64 | 196.24 |
| General Operative | 70.35 | 2.90 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.36 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 73.61 |
| Head Porter | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| Maintenance Person | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| Porter | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
| Senior Caretaker | 0.00 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Senior Porter | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| Total | 109.19 | 78.13 | 75.73 | 32.21 | 24.71 | 32.19 | 32.38 | 36.95 | 29.53 | 23.27 | 13.04 | 25.64 | 9.00 | 14.60 | 26.12 | 18.25 | 580.94 |
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