Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the payments made to each Member of the Houses of the Oireachtas under the Oireachtas leave scheme for teachers in each of the years 1985 to 2009, in tabular form. [15305/18]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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Details of the payments made to individual teacher members of the Houses of the Oireachtas who availed of the special leave and pay arrangement scheme that existed prior to September 2009 are personal to the individual.

The following table contains the aggregate payments made in the period July 2003 to December 2008 and the number of individual members who received payments under the terms of the scheme. This data was abstracted from information compiled a number of years ago and was accessible in my Department.

To obtain the information requested by the Deputy for the period 1985 to July 2003, it would be necessary to undertake a comprehensive check of historic manual files held in offsite storage facilities to determine what information is available for that period. This would be a significant administrative overhead.  The consent of the individuals for the release of the details would also have to be obtained.

Aggregate Payments made to Teacher Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas during the period July 2003 to December 2008