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Don Ryan slams the government and Coughlan at TUI Conference

category national | education | news report author Wednesday April 07, 2010 14:13author by Miriam Cotton Report this post to the editors

Coughlan greeted with stony silence

The TUI voted unanimously yesterday to reject the Croke Park pay deal. This morning Mary Coughlan gave a speech at the union's annual conference during which she made no reference to yesterday's vote nor did she take any questions from the floor. When she finished, a union member at the front bobbed up beside her wearing a Sean Fitzpatrick face-mask. Members treated her to total silence both before and after her speech. In contrast Ryan was greeted with constant rounds of applause and standing ovations throughout his speech.

Points from Don Ryans speech:

He lambasted employers who he said are making rogue decisions about contracts of employment against European and Irish law while the government stands idly by.

He pointed to other European countries where 90% of teachers have permanent contracts and Denmark in particular where 97% are on full time permanent contracts. In contrast Ireland is the worst country in the EU with just 67% of teachers on permanent contracts.

He pointed out that there is no dedicated further education section and strategy at the Department of Education.

When he had finished talking about education he then addressed Coughlan in her role as Tanaiste. He said:

"The problems of the country are totally the fault of the government. None of you has had the decency to admit your huge mistakes.'

He spoke of the 'educational treason' the government were now comitting.

In the contexty of all of this, talk of a smart economy was nothing more than rhetoric which sounded stupid, he said.

Ryan spoke of 'the unscrupulous characters your government has given refuge to' adding that 'not one civilised country would tolerate this'.

Ryan said we needed 'an education system where each learner has equal chances and one which eliminates cronyism and elitism.'

He said we need to stop carving up the education system and that 'we are not going to allow any futher imposition son teachers and lecturers.'

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Forgot to say     Miriam Cotton    Wed Apr 07, 2010 14:18 
   Reality Check.     Evil Capitalist.    Wed Apr 07, 2010 14:37 
   Too late!!     Rational Ecologist    Wed Apr 07, 2010 15:27 
   Busts Never Last.     Optimist.    Wed Apr 07, 2010 15:55 
   Irish Times     Miriam Cotton    Wed Apr 07, 2010 16:05 
   Broke Country.     Smart Alec    Wed Apr 07, 2010 16:20 
   don't blame fellow workers...     private sector worker    Thu Apr 08, 2010 03:36 
   What Don Ryan actually said at the TUI conference     Miriam Cotton    Thu Apr 08, 2010 09:57 
   Grand words are all too easy and all too common.     Rational Ecologist    Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:47 
 10   Fianna Fail     Peter    Thu Apr 08, 2010 16:47 
 11   Relax Peter     Miriam Cotton    Thu Apr 08, 2010 17:43 
 12   Hiding.     On The Dole.    Thu Apr 08, 2010 17:48 
 13   despise?     mikj    Thu Apr 08, 2010 19:36 
 14   yes you are     a real unemployed worker    Sat Apr 10, 2010 20:40 
 15   I Wish.     On The Dole.    Sat Apr 10, 2010 21:34 
 16   so why didn't you...     mikj    Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:41 
 17   in reply to fianna fail     gerard murphy    Tue Apr 13, 2010 20:27 


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