Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Chairman will be delighted to hear that this is my final question. Are there payments for attending parent-teacher meetings? Are teachers obliged to attend such meetings outside school hours? What was the outcome of the last benchmarking exercise in the context of teachers' pay? Did those who carried it out conclude that allowances are part of such pay or that teachers would be extremely underpaid if their allowances were removed?