Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The Department of Education and Skills believes it would be premature to engage with the union on the stoppage that happened last week. That is slightly odd because this issue has been ongoing for 41 years. If the Minister of State was to find that a colleague of his was on higher pay for the job they were doing, it would cause him grievous mental torture. It is an odd statement for the Department of Education and Skills to make. Some 90% of school secretaries are being discriminated against, while a further 10% of their colleagues who are employed directly by the Department of Education and Skills are receiving much higher financial rewards. This issue needs to be addressed urgently or there will be further industrial action in the coming months and years.

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