Youth levy funding teachers’ salaries
Birmingham asked whether levy funds were being used for teachers’ salaries and sought discussions with the Education Minister; the Ceann Comhairle ruled it a separate question and moved on.
Has the Minister remonstrated with his colleague, the Minister for Education, following her answer yesterday when she let the cat out of the bag by indicating that some teachers' salaries——
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——are now to be paid from the youth employment levy? It appears that one of the decisions taken by the Government was to make an additional subvention for the public service——
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I am asking the Minister if he has had any discussions with his Cabinet colleague arising from the information she provided yesterday?