Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I return to my question on strike breaking and the attempt to recruit parents into same against striking teachers. If that is what the Government favours and has approved, how does that marry with any idea of being open to negotiation, the importance of dialogue, etc.? It appears to be part of a pattern of behaviour to try to undermine the ASTI because it has stood up in the face of discrimination against new entrants. We have already seen this in the Department's instruction that ASTI members be discriminated against in the allocation of additional hours. It is perverse that the State is offering payment to strike bearers for supervision duties when a part of the ASTI's campaign is the restoration of supervision pay for its members and the refusal to work enforced and unpaid hours.

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