Sir, – I read that teachers will have housing reserved for them in cost-rental developments to alleviate recruitment shortages at both primary and secondary school levels (News, January 18th).
As a teacher, can I suggest that reversing the pay cuts introduced under the financial emergency caused by the financial sector crash would make more of an impact nationwide? Second-level teacher pay was cut and has never been restored, degree allowances were abolished for new teachers, and all teachers have to do supervision and substitution without pay, unless they opted out and had an equivalent amount deducted from their meagre salaries. I knew that when I started teaching back in the Seventies I was never going to get rich from teaching but now the job is very badly paid. Why would any young person bother to go into teaching now? – Yours, etc,
LEE HEALY,
Ballincollig,
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