The country’s primary schoolteachers are set to be balloted on industrial action if there is no progress on Government delivery of money due since last September under the terms of the public sector pay agreement. Dubliner Eimear Donaghy said the delay compounded the sense that the union had been badly let down by the Government since the public sector pay deal was agreed two years ago. After the motion was passed, INTO general secretary John Boyle said the issue was compounding dissatisfaction within the union over the terms of the wider public sector agreement. “Teachers and fellow workers have been treated very shabbily.”Earlier, union president Ann Horan described the failure to pay the money as a “massive breach of faith” by the Government. It would, she said, only add to the pressure to seek substantial increases when it comes to negotiating a new public sector pay deal, a process due to get under way in the coming months.

Source: The Irish Times April 06, 2026 21:18 UTC