Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Mr. Ó Foghlú and his team. A lot has been covered already but I have a few questions. One of the most startling things was the percentage of the budget that relates to pay, as in so many Departments. It is 80%.

On a topic related to pay, I wish to ask about a 2001 Labour Court recommendation by the then chairperson, Mr. Finbarr Flood, that local training initiative co-ordinators, LTIs, should have a pay relationship and be linked proportionately to the community training workshop managers. It was never implemented despite that the LTIs and community training centres effectively perform the same function. Both of these come under the remit of the education and training boards, ETBs, and are funded and part-governed by the ETBs.