Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I thank Mr. Pykett for making this point. A point on which we should deliberate is whether the existence of some of these allowances runs opposite to the spirit the Croke Park agreement is trying to develop, as Mr. Pykett said. I am on the board of management of my local school. My children are in a primary school and I am also involved with secondary schools in my constituency. We have fantastic teachers and more than many others, they deal at the front line with the social consequences of the trauma the country is in. There is a great degree of sensitivity among them to the discussion we are having at present and I understand why. I hope anybody watching this will have seen us try to understand the allowances and make points grounded in data. We have tried to tease through this. I thank the witnesses for coming in and for all the work they shared with us.