The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has claimed that the current secondary school teachers strike could be resolved sooner rather than later if they accepted the money currently on offer.
Mr Kenny’s comments after he received heavy criticism in the Dáil for the current strike action that has seen the closure of 400 schools nationwide.
Mr Kenny told the Dáil: “I don’t accept that the Government, Ministers and the Cabinet were lax here in not dealing with this, this has dragged on for some time with its results of the one hour not being worked from a unilateral decision, made by the ASTI union.”
“And that has affected their own members to their detriment now and there is money on the table to pay them.”
“This is an issue, this particular issue is one that could be solved very quickly.”