Demands are being made for an emergency meeting on the strike affecting schools.

The ongoing action by school secretaries and caretakers is continuing today in the North West and across the country - as their call for pension parity with other workers is met with a wall of silence from Government.

Labour’s Education Spokesperson Eoghan Kenny says schools are struggling to operate as normal without their essential workers - and he's written to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education asking it to intervene: