Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach expected and expects the people of this country to feel pleased at these comments but, apart from the warm fuzzy feeling that we might be expected to feel after Angela Merkel's kind words, can he tell the teachers who are marching to the Dáil today, particularly the young, newly qualified teachers, what their new special status will mean? So far, their experience of being special is that if they start working as teachers this year, they are so special they will be earning 25% less than people they are working beside for doing precisely the same job, and they are so special they will earn €250,000 less over their working life, which is, by the way, the price of a house-----

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