Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Very well. That is a key matter. The funding is welcome. Co-operation hours do provide a service. Ultimately, however, anyone teaching in an institution like the centre - and a person may view teaching as a vocation and be very committed to the institution - is entitled to consider what that to which I refer is going to mean for them and their pension in the long term. Institutions like the Cork Life Centre are going to struggle to hold on to staff. That is a fact. We have to crack that issue and we have not done so. I welcome the progress that has been made, but we still have not cracked the problem.