Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On behalf of the committee, I welcome Mr. Eamon Dennehy, president of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland, ASTI; Mr. Frank Jones, general secretary of the Irish Federation of University Teachers, IFUT, and member of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU, education sector group; Ms Máirín Ní Chéileachair, assistant general secretary of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation, INTO; Ms Emer Neville, uachtarán of the Irish Second-Level Students Union, ISSU; Mr. Michael Gillespie, general secretary of the Teachers' Union of Ireland, TUI; and Ms Clare Austick, president of the Union of Students in Ireland, USI. I will ask each of the witnesses to make their opening statements and they will have four minutes to do so. I will then call members of the committee, who will have eight minutes for their questions and responses. I will be strict on the time limits.

I invite Mr. Dennehy to make his opening statement.