Jennifer Bray
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546 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Jul
Jennifer Bray’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I think Christina's spot on the money there.
It's kind of raising the flag and going, oh, look, people are really annoyed about this.
It's kind of a bold move, really.
And actually, there's a Fine Gael meeting of backbenchers coming up next week where they're going to all submit their budget demands and they all want everything.
Everyone wants everything in the budget.
So it'll be interesting to see how Simon Harris handles his first budget as Minister for Finance when his own party are stacking up the demands.
Exactly, yeah.
And I suppose the other issue we haven't really heard much fleshed out detail on is this voluntary returns procedure.
And I was told it would involve a generous package, but we don't know what that is yet.
Jennifer?
I think you're such a brave man putting out a tweet like that.
And also, you know yourself, even if you have like a nuanced set of lengthy tweets, the one thing people are going to remember is the part-time comment.
I have a lot of friends who are teachers and...
With the greatest of respect to you now, I just think that I just couldn't, I really disagree with the statement, not because I think it's a popular thing to say, but just because of the experiences of friends of mine who are teachers.
And I think it is true that obviously it's much handier during the summer, but their experience during the school year is...
is from what I'm being told, there's a huge level of burnout.
And also like when you're a teacher nowadays, it seems you're not only just expected to be a teacher, you're also expected to be tanned, other different kinds of things.
And almost this kind of presumption you'd also be a former babysitter or, you know, a counsellor.
And there's all these extra things that are
constantly being added on and I just don't know if that's fully taken into account and now we have kind of situations as well where you know there's a huge and rightful focus on special educational needs but there are a lot of teachers who are taking on the administrative burden of that particularly after school hours so certainly the feedback I've received from friends who are teachers is that they're completely burnt out.
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