Kathleen Funchion (Carlow-Kilkenny, Sinn Fein)
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202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of university teaching staff employed on a casual basis. [26636/18]

Kathleen Funchion (Carlow-Kilkenny, Sinn Fein)
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203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of university teaching staff paid on an hourly basis. [26637/18]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 202 and 203 together.

The data requested by the Deputy is not collected or collated by my Department and is a matter for the Universities as the employers.

However, in 2016 an Expert Group reported on the level of fixed-term and part-time employment in third-level lecturing, this Expert Group was provided for under the Haddington Road Agreement.

To inform the Report of the Expert Group on Fixed-Term and Part-Time Employment in Lecturing (also known as the Cush Report) my Department collated data on the level of fixed-term and part-time employment in lecturing in each Institute of Technology and University.

The information collated is in the following table.

All numbers in Table 1 are headcounts. The reference date is the end of Q3 2015.

Part-time is defined as working less than full hours on a voluntary basis. Employees who were full time and who have opted for less than full hours voluntarily (e.g. work-sharing, parental leave or shorter working year scheme).

Four employment patterns are identified. Permanent full-time, and three types of “atypical” employment: Permanent part-time, fixed-term part-time and fixed-term full-time.

*The figure of 1659 for part-time and fixed-term provided for NUIG includes a figure of 1646 employees who are described by NUIG as hourly paid (equating to 85.6 FTEs).