Brendan Ryan (Dublin North, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Intuitively, one would deal with those who came out of the education system and those coming through the education system. The hope would be that one would stop the flow out of the education system. Based on the difference between the programme for international student assessment, PISA, and the programme for the international assessment of adult competencies, PIAAC, quite a deal of research is required to be done on this. If the resources are going into education to deal with it at that level, there would be a reduction in the requirement for dealing with it at adult level afterwards. Is that serious research going on to the extent a strategy can be put in place to deal with this anomaly?

I met some of the NALA representatives at the National Ploughing Championships. They made me wear a coloured wig for a photograph with them. That will always be with me.