David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I would also like to be associated with the comments of my colleagues. I was a teacher in Trinity College for many years. It is an appalling prospect that these people should be turfed out, particularly when language schools, which have proliferated in recent years, charge very considerable fees to their students. They really are a profit-making machine. Later in this debate we will come to amendments that deal directly with the terms and conditions of work, limiting short-term and zero-hour contracts and various other nasty practices by employers. In case our friends from Grafton College are not here for the later part of the debate, I assure them that we will be looking at the issue of terms and conditions of work under amendments which I will be strongly supporting later on.