Ms Luisa Carty:

With the sick leave it is only five days, or even the critical illness. We had a member who had breast cancer and was out for a full year. All she got from her school was two days' sick leave. Another member who had breast cancer worked right through her chemotherapy because she could not afford to be out of work. With bereavement leave, a member's father died and there were two other staff in the same school who could go out for I think up to 20 days for-----