Mr. Paul Crone:

The National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals, NAPD, in partnership with the Irish Primary Principals' Network, IPPN, conducted a survey of principals and deputy principals at primary and post-primary levels. We have compared it to a healthy working population in Denmark and to the school leaders in New Zealand. That data in relation to the health, wellbeing and workload of school leaders are from a 2022 survey. It has been shared with the Department of Education. I am prepared to share our data with the committee, if it would like us to do so. The data show that, on average, school leaders are spending 30 hours per week on administration and 40% of them are working in excess of 60 hours per week. It is a huge piece of work, with internationally compared data. It is available and I am prepared to share it.