Robbie Gallagher (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Mr. Curtis and Dr. Gormley and thank them for their attendance. Some of the questions have been covered so, to facilitate progress, I will not go over them again. Dr. Gormley placed great emphasis on boards of management and their importance as stakeholders. My experience of boards of management is that it is sometimes difficult to get local people to sit on them. Is that an issue that Dr. Gormley has come across? Will it be a problem when trying to implement whatever policy is ultimately agreed?

We often hear it stated by teachers and as part of a campaign by school principals, particularly principals of primary schools, that working school principals' current workload has reached breaking point and that they cannot take much more. For this to be worthwhile and meaningful and if we are serious about trying to implement change for the betterment of everyone, do we need to consider this issue?