Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Monday, 23 March 2015
Seanad Public Consultation Committee
Farm Safety: Discussion
2:00 pm
Mr. Patrick Duffy:
Let me answer Senator Wilson's question. I hope to produce my game and make it available to families and schools. If I do not, it will go to waste. An idea I have is to go to agricultural shows around County Monaghan and, as suggested, Virginia in Cavan, to make the board games available there.
With regard to the community, I have visited my old primary school in Ballybay, Scoil Éanna. I played the board game there with students from sixth and third classes. They had fun, which is good, and more important, they learned something. I asked them a couple of questions afterwards on farm safety and 71% got all the answers right or had one question wrong. I was very happy with those results. I would like to make the product available to more schools, both primary and secondary, because this is where most value can be gleaned from it. I will definitely be considering this in the future.
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