Teachers on wrong rates repaid €4m

More than 1,600 teachers have been repaid a total of almost €4m after being paid at the wrong rate for the last school year.

Each of the teachers was paid arrears of up to €8,500 following problems calculating the correct pay for new entrants to the profession in 2012.

Following a number of changes last year to salaries and allowances for newly qualified teachers, the Department of Education took until last month to calculate their salary rates and how much they were consequently owed in arrears.