Written answers

Tuesday, 29 September 2020

Department of Education and Skills

School Staff

Photo of Donnchadh Ó LaoghaireDonnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein)
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446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of ensuring that teaching principals have one release day per week. [26377/20]

Photo of Norma FoleyNorma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The Roadmap for the Full Return to School provides for comprehensive supports across a range of areas to allow for the safe reopening of schools.

€10.2m in additional funding has been allocated to support Principals and Deputy Principals who also undertake teaching duties in primary schools. This funding will provide each teaching principal with one release day per week, and release days for Deputy Principals in those schools that have an existing administrative principal. Details on these arrangements are set out in Circular 45/2020, Operational Supports for Primary Schools for the Full Return to School.

The annual cost of one release day per week to each school with a teaching principal is in the region of €16.6 million.

Photo of Donnchadh Ó LaoghaireDonnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein)
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447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of restoring assistant principal posts to pre-2008 levels. [26378/20]

Photo of Donnchadh Ó LaoghaireDonnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein)
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448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent on assistant principal posts in the past 12 years, in tabular form. [26379/20]

Photo of Donnchadh Ó LaoghaireDonnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein)
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449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing the budget for assistant principal posts by 5%, 10% and 20%, respectively. [26380/20]

Photo of Norma FoleyNorma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 447 to 449, inclusive, together.

The information on Assistant Principal posts requested by the Deputy is being compiled and will be forwarded direct to him. I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the allowances for assistant principal posts will be restored to their monetary value as of the 31 December 2009 with effect from the 1st October, 2020.

The value of the AP1 allowance from the 1st October, 2020 will be €8,968 and the AP 2 value will be €3,967.

The details of all the salary scales and allowances for teachers in primary and second level schools with effect from the 1st October, 2020 are outlined in Circular 0060/2020 which can be accessed on my Department's website.

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