Pauline Tully (Sinn Fein)
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The witnesses are very welcome. As a former teacher in a school I very much appreciate the work that both secretaries and caretakers do in the school. They know everybody on the ground, every child in the school and they know what is going on. Often they are the ones you go to to find out what is actually going on.

Am I right that with ETBs there is not only a discrepancy between the pay and conditions between the teachers and SNAs in the different types of schools? Someone could be doing a job in one school and another person doing the very same job in another school but because the patronage is different the pay and conditions are different?