Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It does. I will ask Ms Costello a question in respect of what was in her statement on behalf of IBEC. She referred to the fact that an education system should really be making students curious about what they are and are not learning. One of the criticisms of the leaving certificate is that people get out of habit of thinking for themselves and instead just rote learn answers they believe are appropriate to exam questions. Is it important that business has people who think for themselves? Is there a concern in business, and possibly elsewhere, that we are producing many graduates and people who do not think for themselves and in fact outsource their thinking to others?