Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is interesting all right. I reference this even at teaching conferences. It is hugely important that we have upskilling courses and mentoring courses, which we do have, and that we encourage those who would have a desire to become leaders to take those opportunities of mentoring and coaching courses that are available to them and that they would do it in advance even of putting their names forward for those positions. It is hugely important that we see equality of participation across leadership roles and all other roles within the education sector. As I say, it is for that reason we are doing all that we can on every side of it to see that campaigns, such as Teaching Transforms, will bring into the education sector diversity, whether it is equality in gender, ethnicity or whatever. That work is ongoing.