Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Minister for Education and Skills, given the constraints on the budget and the budgetary preparation he has to go through, brought in a new system where teachers starting the profession are at a lower salary or wage than those who had been in the system before. I listened to the secretary of one of the unions this morning say that the protest today was not about wages but about the education sector in general-----

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