Letters to the Editor: Sensible steps towards recruiting more teachers

The head of the Catholic Secondary School Parents Association responds to an 'Irish Examiner' editorial, while other readers consider topics from the Middle East conflict to assisted dying

Alan Whelan writes that 'Ireland’s over-centralised education system is controlled by a central government unable to find commonsense, innovative solutions to soluble problems and unwilling to listen to national parent associations'. Picture: Danny Lawson/PA

Your editorial — ‘‘Struggle to find teachers is shocking’’ (Irish Examiner, November 16) — was rightly entitled; surely what is even more shocking is the inability of the Government to explore viable solutions.

Other countries have faced similar problems especially in their major cities. I began a teaching career in London 50 years ago. At the time the Inner London Education Authority, faced with what is now a Dublin problem, decided to pay a London allowance.