Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As somebody who sat in a room with 30 or 40 school principals and 30 or 40 school chairpersons in the region from the Liffey to Arklow, I can tell Mr. Watt that they cannot find Irish teachers, science teachers, continental language teachers, design and communication graphics, DCG, teachers and technical drawing-type teachers. It is getting ever harder to get them. When a school gets one, all of a sudden it discovers that the same job is on offer in some other part of Ireland where the teacher happens to be from, he or she has parents there, and that teacher can rent a house for €400 instead of €2,500 a month or spend €80,000 or €180,000 instead of €800,000 to buy one. I am flagging it because this is not a future problem. This is a current problem. I could find 50 school principals in south Dublin who will tell Mr. Watt that they cannot get X, Y and Z, or A B and C. That is not the future. That is now.