Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
Debate contribution by Mr Pádraig Delargy on .
- MLA
- Mr Pádraig Delargy
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 1 June 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Executive Committee Business
- Heading
- Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5582220
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I thank the Minister for giving way. The Minister has made it very clear, particularly in the past few minutes, that his objective is to smash unions and remove the right for teachers and education staff to have access to campaign for better conditions and fair pay. When I was teaching, that was the reason that we engaged in industrial action. It was because Ministers in the Department of Education consistently failed to stand up for teachers. The biggest issue in the teaching workforce today is retention, and the reason is that teachers feel undervalued. They feel intimidated by the Bill. That is what they have told us time and time again. You should listen to the unions, not to your Department.
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