Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding pay for home tuition teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27590/20]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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Funding for the provision of Home Tuition was continued during the Covid-19 emergency restrictions where tuition was delivered by distance learning.

Where Home Tuition could not continue via distance learning, Parents were given the option to apply to the Department to bank the hours sanctioned for the period and use them to provide tuition once in-home tuition resumed.

Approximately 200 Parents took this option.

Parents can use the banked tuition hours at any time until the end of August 2021. This provides Parents with the flexibility to arrange tuition in the evenings or at weekends and during school holidays, including over the course of next summer.

As the Deputy may be aware, Home Tutors are paid on a fortnightly basis through the Non-Teaching Staff Payroll operated by my Department. My Department is making the necessary arrangements to issue the payments referred to by the Deputy as soon as possible during October.