Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

A number of questions have been asked and I will answer them as best as I can. If I do not give a complete reply, we can return to them, subject to the rulings of the Chair.

Junior cycle reform was raised by Deputies McConalogue and O'Brien. The first meeting of the national working group on junior cycle reform, as I said yesterday, took place last Friday. I would have preferred it to have taken place on the Friday at the end of June but due to the industrial relations difficulty with the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland, ASTI, at that time, it was not possible.