Michael Conaghan (Dublin South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Yes, the VEC boards of different schools and colleges. I believe everyone learns from each other. There is a kind of mutual respect for where people are coming from and their role and responsibilities. I have always found that everyone comes away enriched in terms of what that school and the young people in that school are achieving. That is the whole purpose of it. We have to ask what sitting around that table is doing for the child or teenager in the school. Generally, that is uppermost in people's minds, or that is my experience.