Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the level of overtime being worked by support staff in the City of Dublin Education and Training Board, CDETB; his plans to recruit staff to minimise the overtime being worked; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40167/18]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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I understand from the Deputy that the support staff referred to are non-teaching staff based in colleges of further education employed in CDETB.

The position is that ETBs receives an administration & maintenance staffing allocation from my Department. The way in which such staffing is allocated to individual ETB schools, colleges and other activities within the CDETB is entirely a matter for that ETB.

ETBs are afforded considerable flexibility in the use of these resources to meet the needs of individual schemes and the way in which the allocation is distributed among schools and colleges and other activities is a matter for each ETB in line with its priorities and perceptions of need.

Request for additional non-teaching staffing supports are dealt with on a case by case basis and are decided upon in accordance with the criteria set down in deciding on supports for ETB schools, colleges and other activities.

In many cases, it has not always been possible to sanction staff to ETBs where the staff sought is outside the criteria laid down by my Department. In deciding on these criteria, I must be prudent in the context of ongoing budgetary pressures.