Principals to be paid extra €1,500

SCHOOL principals are set to be paid an extra €1,500 every year for working as secretary to their boards of management.

The role has always been fulfilled by principals in most of the country’s 3,900 primary and second level schools but only the principals of the 14 second level comprehensive schools have been paid for the work up to now.

The payments recently sanctioned by the Department of Education will cost taxpayers around €2.8 million yearly and will be backdated to include the last school year.