Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 June 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Archdiocese of Dublin

2:25 pm

Ms Anne McDonagh:

I have been a teacher and have been in education all my life. I have been a union representative and I know where the teachers are coming from. However, teachers go home every day, get a salary into their pockets and will not lose their jobs. The patron, however, has responsibility under the Education Act to look after the affairs of that school. If we look at the repair bill for that school, the teacher has no responsibility whatever for it. To be fair to them-----