Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Principals are the leaders of the national primary school system. With other Deputies, I have heard many complaints about the increasing and massive workload principals must undertake, particularly since the economic crash. Chonaic mé fógra 0019/2019, dealing with release time for principal teachers in primary schools, issued last week. There was one additional release date per week for some teaching principals, but the Irish National Teachers Organisation does not consider it is enough to address the additional work teaching principals, in particular, must undertake.

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