The Secondary School Teachers Union, the A-S-T-I, says allowances teachers receive are part of their contract and therefore cannot be revoked.
New figures released by the Department of Education show that the State paid out over half a billion euro last year in allowances for primary and secondary school teachers.
Teachers can earn additional payment for such things as teaching through Irish, teaching in a Gaeltacht area and for doing supervision yard duties.
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Fine Gael TD Jim Daly is urging teachers to give up some of these allowances in order to preserve services in schools.
But the General Secretary of the ASTI Pat King says teacher don’t get these additional payments for doing nothing:
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