Questions facing the ministerial roadshow

HERE are some of the questions that I would like Education Minister Noel Dempsey to answer at his ‘roadshow’ meetings with teachers: Can he justify the fact that teachers at the lower end of the longest salary scale earn less per hour for teaching students than the money he is offering for supervising the same students?

Where is the professionalism in teachers accepting half the pay of unqualified personnel to fulfil the same function?

Why should teachers of more than five years' experience do 90 minutes overtime at a rate of pay that is beneath their basic hourly rate?