Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)

The answer is we did. Is the Minister of State aware of the part-time workers' directive, under which the State was taken to court in respect of part-time teachers? On 10 November last, the Department of Education and Science was obliged to pay back a sum of €11 million to those 600 part-time teachers who had received the wrong rate of pay for the past ten years. This is the example to which the Minister of State referred and he must read up on his brief from the Department of Education and Science.

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