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PAYROLL SAVINGS REQUEST POSES ‘UNPALATABLE’ OPTIONS<br />

Following these meetings and discussions with the NAPD offi cers<br />

the reality of an increase in the P-T-R at second level was discussed.<br />

The impact of salary reduction for teachers was considered. Other<br />

options were considered, including:<br />

• The impact of increments on salary cost;<br />

• Cuts to allocations;<br />

• Supervision for exam conferences;<br />

• The possibility of each post-primary teacher agreeing to work an<br />

additional 1 hour for the duration of the Recovery Plan;<br />

• Initiatives to achieve savings in the areas of Supervision &<br />

Substitution;<br />

• Scaling back the number of ex-quota posts;<br />

• Scaling back Transition Year and other Programmes;<br />

• Schools operating for less than 28 hours per week;<br />

• Deferring Curriculum reform;<br />

• Reviewing In-service provision;<br />

• Amending existing class sizes;<br />

• Understandings to make timetabling of practical classes easier;<br />

• Examining the Section 29 process;<br />

• Reducing the number of Special Centres used during the State<br />

Examinations;<br />

• Incentivising early retirement<br />

It is the Association’s fi rm belief that there is little room to manoeuvre<br />

at second level and that a deterioration of the P-T-R at second level<br />

will have catastrophic repercussions for the service provided to the<br />

children in our schools. There is an imperative to protect teacher<br />

numbers in our schools and NAPD recommends that a process of<br />

internship as an imaginative component of initial teacher training<br />

be considered by the Teaching Council as part of on-going reform.<br />

36 <strong>ESHA</strong> MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2011

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