Ms Luisa Carty:

The amount of money that has been put in place for this is minimal. This job involves manual labour. It has been imposed on a lot of school secretaries without their consent in a lot of places. They are told it is part of their job and they have to come in and do it. However, the amount of work that is involved in it and the expectations from the Department of education as regards the length of time in which this can be done means it is just not feasible. While it is very welcome for parents and families with children in the schools, it is a huge amount of work. Our job has evolved so much from what we used to do years ago when we started to what it is now. This is just an extra on top of that.