There's some bad news today for around 17,000 low paid school secretaries and non-teaching staff.
The Finance Minister Michael Noonan says he will not be reversing a five percent pay cut to their wages, implemented in January.
Around 500 secretaries belonging to the IMPACT trade union have already voted to take industrial action over the pay cut - although it's thought this action will not affect students.
Kathleen O Doherty is a school secretary in Letterkenny, and she says it's a new government, but the same old policies:
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