Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We were very clear that the commitment around that would be very similar to school secretaries. The body of work around school secretaries took a considerable amount of time because different school secretaries work under different systems. Previously, school secretaries were employed by the boards of management so there were individual circumstances and that took a considerable body of work. The research is practically near completion in terms of everybody who wanted to be on the system. From my Department's point of view, the work on school secretaries is practically completed at this point. We are finalising the situation for school secretaries and we will move on to caretakers.