Dáil debates

Thursday, 27 October 2016

11:35 am

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I mean no disrespect but the Tánaiste sounds like a broken record. We are hearing the repetition of the same mantra from her and her colleague, the Minister for Education and Sills, who seems to find this matter amusing. Rather than setting out a road map, the Government parties have walked us into quite a cul-de-sac and not content with that, they have sabre rattled and, at a time of great sensitivity, seem to wish to ratchet up what they see as pressure on teachers, but, in fact, they have made a difficult situation all the more difficult.

I asked the Tánaiste a simple question and she just needs to answer that. Is it the position of Government that there will be pay parity for all teachers within the system? The post-2011 teaching entrants call themselves LPTs, lower paid teachers.

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