Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if cleaning staff employed directly by schools should be paid for 7 June 2024, even if their school is being used as a polling station on that day. [24172/24]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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As you may be aware, the majority of primary and post-primary schools receive assistance to provide for cleaning services under grant schemes. Where a school employs a staff member to support those functions those staff members are employees of the individual schools and as such responsibility for terms of employment and their rate of pay rests with the school or Board of Management.

In the cases where a school may be outsourcing necessary cleaning functions to a commercial cleaning company, the employer of those cleaners is the company itself and not the school and like above terms of employment would rest with the company and not the school or the department.

As such decisions regarding payment for cleaners in instances where a school may be closed to facilitate polling on 7 June 2024 is a matter for the school as the employer to determine.