Michael Collins (Cork South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I always talk from experience. I have been on a board of management for a number of years. I worry about another layer. I work for people who are community voluntary people who give their time for free to their community. They go to long meetings at night for the betterment of their schools. We are continually putting layers of difficulties in front of them instead of trying to work with them. I am afraid we are starting to make it very laborious. What is happening is it is getting more and more difficult to get people to sit on boards of management and parents' associations and teachers' associations.

They have to do a great deal of fundraising, and that effort is required because of a shortfall in the capitation grant, which they have to make up somewhere.

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