Ms Irene Gunning:

We have conducted a very small pilot project with the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment on the implementation of Aistear, the curriculum which was mentioned. We are very proud of the curriculum, in the development of which so many of us were involved. It includes themes of belonging, communication and identity. The outcomes from the pilot project are very positive and we were only just discussing and assessing this morning ways in which we might extend it. We have been involved in the Síolta pilot projects, which have begun to produce a type of Irish model in mentoring that is really good. When the migration of FETAC courses took place, the awarding bodies insisted that the after-school course which we developed generically for the awarding body was dropped. It is a strange one.