Action Plans

Progress Reports

Savings Reports

Summary

• A reduction of 2,000 posts of responsibility in primary and post-primary schools, with a saving of €10m annually.
• Redeployment procedures at primary level have been implemented with some 950 surplus teachers redeployed for the 2011/12 school year with an estimated full year saving of €47.5m.
• New redeployment procedures for second level teachers have been implemented for the 2011/12 school year resulting in the elimination of a surplus of some 200 teachers with an estimated full year saving of €10m.
• New contract terms for Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) have been introduced which provide greater flexibility for schools and clarify the duties of SNAs including increased flexibility in organising working time.
• The 2011/2012 academic year is the first full year of implementing additional working hours in schools and Institutes of Technology which are contributing to reduced school closures and increased teaching/lecturing time.
• Revised contract terms for academic staff in universities have been introduced which provides for an additional hour per week to facilitate teaching and learning in the universities.
• The rationalisation of Vocational Education Committees (VECs), reducing 33 to 16, is being progressed.
• A single student grant scheme has been introduced which replaces 4 different schemes. City of Dublin VEC is administering the scheme instead of 66 separate bodies.