The salaries of all teachers in fee-paying schools were paid on the same basis as other second-level schools — one for every 18 pupils until September 2009.

COME budget day, we will doubtless witness levels of nationwide self-pity that will make Peig Sayers seem cheerful.

ESB deputy chief executive Aidan O’Regan (Letters, November 19) reveals the extent to which tunnel vision plagues the group and no one seems willing to talk about anything before 2020.