Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

An Irish national teachers' organisation poll of 1,300 of its members, conducted before the summer holidays, found that 98% of teachers who were renting agreed that it was "very difficult" to secure new accommodation in their area. A recent Irish National Teachers Organisation, INTO, survey of 1,000 schools, this time in conjunction with the Irish Primary Principals Network and the Catholic Primary School Management Association, found 800 unfilled vacancies. Is there a connection between these two findings? Of course there is. There is a big connection. It is not just the likes of ourselves who are saying it. In September, RTÉ quoted Professor Charlotte Holland, the deputy dean of the Dublin City University institute of education as saying, "I think it is a systemic issue. It would be very much-----".

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