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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Status of Non-Teaching Staff in Schools: Discussion (9 Apr 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...Ireland, ETBI; Mr. Paul Fiorentini, president of the Association of Community and Comprehensive Schools, ACCS; Mr. David Duffy, education and research officer from the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI; Mr. Andy Pike, national secretary of Fórsa; Ms Breda Lynch, president of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland, ASTI; and Ms Tara Carton, principal officer with the Department of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Status of Non-Teaching Staff in Schools: Discussion (9 Apr 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I call Mr. David Duffy from the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI, to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Status of Non-Teaching Staff in Schools: Discussion (9 Apr 2019)

Mr. David Duffy: The TUI represents more than 17,000 teachers and lecturers employed by education and training boards, voluntary secondary schools, community and comprehensive schools and the institutes of technology. The TUI welcomes the work of the Oireachtas committee in examining the status for non-teaching staff in schools. This is important both in terms of staff working inside...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Status of Non-Teaching Staff in Schools: Discussion (9 Apr 2019)

...I will try to answer them in order. Members might remind me if I miss any of them. I apologise in advance if I do. Senator Gallagher mentioned an audit of staff that had been suggested by the TUI and asked if there had been any previous audit. A survey of grant-funded secretaries and caretakers was conducted in early 2009. At that time, approximately half of primary schools and about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Status of Non-Teaching Staff in Schools: Discussion (9 Apr 2019)

..., because not all of them are paid by the Department, that is not an option. The easiest way to do it is probably by way of a survey akin to what my departmental colleagues did in 2009. The TUI would be more than happy to support our departmental colleagues in any way we can in terms of asking people to get that data back as soon as possible. In any context a survey will be part of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Status of Non-Teaching Staff in Schools: Discussion (9 Apr 2019)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank Ms Lynch for that. Ms Moira Leydon, from the ASTI; Mr. Seamus Lahart, the TUI president; Ms Debbie Howlett, from the ETBI; Ms Maria Dunne, the chair of Fórsa's school secretaries branch; Ms Caoimhe Allman, from the Department of Education and Skills; and Mr. John Irwin, the general secretary of the ACCS, are in the Public Gallery. I would like to thank our witnesses for their...