Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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I will try to go through this as quickly as possible and give factual responses.

Basic pay for primary schools, as distinct from increments, is 72% of expenditure, and it is the same for school teachers. Where we will go with this is set in the context of a new pay agreement, the second Croke Park agreement. In the Civil Service, one comes in at a recruitment grade of executive officer and if one gets promotion to higher executive officer, one gets additional responsibilities and an additional workload. In the public service, something similar would be ideal, so that if one gets to be an assistant principal or gets a particular role, the salary increase would automatically involve corresponding responsibilities.

The system is a very old one. It has grown up and has been renegotiated numerous times. There have been a large number of accretions to it. If members look at the list of allowances across the entire system they will see that some of them make sense while others are nonsensical.