Brendan Ryan (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the witnesses to the committee and congratulate them on their initiative and impressive presentation.

Some questions I intended to put have been asked by other members. The witnesses' opening statement said that one of the key elements of the new junior cycle is that students carefully plan, draft and redraft everything they write but that the new English exam directly contradicts that philosophy. I ask the witnesses to elaborate on that and explain what they mean.