Moratorium ‘damaging young teachers and pupils’

The Government must remove its contentious ban on appointing new public sector staff if it wants to stop damaging young teachers and the students depending on them.

Speaking on the first day of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) conference in Co Wexford, delegates said the policy is stretching current teachers too far, while preventing others from gaining work.

And they said the policy is also damaging children by not providing them with as detailed a service as they deserve.