Croke Park Agreement

Well, f- teachers do unpaid work every year.

There's hours that they do in their contracts every year under the Croke Park Agreement that they don't get paid for.

So I just, you're so appalled by unpaid work, I assume you want teachers to be paid for that.

No, well, wait a minute.

I mean, the Bertie Ahern social partnership, you know, took us through a kind of a whole political generation when there was agreements between the government and the respective trade unions.

There was an agreement that came, the Croke Park Agreement that came in 2011 and Haddington Road and all the agreements that kind of came during the recession and afterwards have brought us to this summer.

but at the moment there is no deal.

And both sides seem to be playing hardball with each other.

OK, what's it going to look like? You know, what does not working Croke Park hours in the first instance look like? We all know what strikes look like, but what does not working Croke Park hours look like? What will parents not be seeing teachers do?

So the Croke Park Hours came in in the Croke Park Agreement and so every school uses those for things like open evenings, parent-teacher meetings, different school activities that happen predominantly outside of school time.

So parent-teacher meetings are very likely going to be affected, maybe ones that are scheduled for the week of the 5th.

After-school activities in respect of those whole school planning hours will also be affected.