JobBridge financially unsuitable, says teacher

An unemployed teacher has said the JobBridge scheme might be worth applying for if it did not make him and others ineligible for a better chance of permanent work.

The system has come in for criticism as a way of finding cheap labour.

Ray O’Donovan, an unemployed teacher from West Cork, said it is financially unsuitable when he can get almost €200 for the occasional day of substitution, even after having just 10 days’ work so far this term.