Mulloy v Minister for Education
| Jurisdiction | Ireland |
| Court | Supreme Court |
| Judgment Date | 19 June 1975 |
| Docket Number | [1972 No. 3403 P] |
| Date | 19 June 1975 |
School teacher -Scheme for salary increments - Benefit of scheme restricted to lay teachers - Discrimination on ground of religious status - Validity of regulations - Constitution of Ireland, 1937, Article44.
The first defendant made certain rules governing the conditions that had to be satisfied by teachers at secondary schools in Ireland in order to qualify for benefits under a scheme for the payment of salary increments to such teachers. Although the scheme provided that the incremental salary of a teacher should depend upon the length of his teaching service, the rules stated expressly that no teacher had a right to receive payment of incremental salary which was subject to the absolute discretion of the first defendant. The first defendant amended the scheme by providing that certain teaching service abroad should be treated as teaching service under the scheme, but the amendment was confined to teaching service abroad given by "a lay secondary-school teacher." The plaintiff was a priest and a secondary-school teacher who had served abroad in foreign missions as a teacher. In considering whether the plaintiff was qualified to receive incremental salary under the scheme, the first defendant had...
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