Tanaiste's 'insulting' comments infuriate managers [Independent.ie]
- Published: 30 April 2010
Education Minister Mary Coughlan was accused of insulting managers by suggesting they were lucky to have principals and deputy principals appointed to their schools.
An attempt to explain how principals were exempted from the ban on filling public sector jobs was greeted with jeers at the annual conference of the Association of Management of Catholic Secondary Schools in Kilkenny.
The Tanaiste said she and her colleagues had participated in very difficult discussions over the past two years during which her predecessor Batt O'Keeffe fought very hard to ensure that they were exempt.
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