Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Millions have been spent educating these teachers and we cannot afford to lose them to countries like the United Arab Emirates and other places. The discrimination is having a deeply unsettling effect on the teaching profession. The Minister said an agreement has been reached or whatever. When will these teachers actually receive the pay they are being denied? That is the question. When will that happen? We are told there is already a deterioration in the quality of services being provided to the young students being taught because teachers are not staying. That has a kind of unsettling effect. When students get used to a certain teacher, it is hard for them to lose that teacher in the middle of their education.

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