Pauline O'Reilly (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank our guests for their work. It sounds as though they are passionate about the area, which is important. I am coming from an outside-the-school-system perspective, so the word "curriculum" sets off something in my mind. It is quite clear we are in the middle of a new revolution. There was the industrial revolution, there has kind of been a digital revolution and we are now probably going through yet another revolution. When I was attending school, we had no mobile phones or Internet, yet that technology is now what our world revolves around and we need a new set of skills we never thought we would need.

Are our guests confident we can build in that flexibility, independence of thought and self-belief? Of course, we need to talk about the curriculum because it is practical, but the word "curriculum" means something different from what it meant in the past. It is important to highlight that for people at the outset.