Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Science, 30th November 2006
- Published: 12 December 2007
IPPN appeared before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education on 30th November 2006 following an invitation to present their findings on the recruitment and retention crisis in school leadership.
This wide-ranging presentation by Seán Cottrell, Geraldine D'Arcy and John Curran lasted just over an hour. The Committee were presented with copies of the IPPN report, "Investing in School Leadership" and heard a summary of the main points and arguments from this. The format was a presentation by IPPN followed by questions and answers from the committee. The committee engaged fully and with some with interest, asking relevant and insightful questions.
It was interesting to note the presence of Senator Joe O'Toole, former INTO General Secretary, who, while not a member of the committee, was present at the hearing deputising for other members who were engaged in an education debate in the Senate.
One of the 14 topics presented by IPPN on the problems of recruitment and retention was the proposal of a separate salary scale for principals in the context of the current Benchmarking process. For those of you interested, this topic took up approx. 0.015% of the presentation i.e. 131 words of the 8,732 in total in the hearing.
A full transcript of the hearing is available by clicking here or by accessing the JOC website and following the links to JOC parliamentary debates.
