Dr. Patrick Sullivan:

I will give the context and background. Part of the developments at primary level is that we are redeveloping the entire primary school curriculum. It is 22 years old and is in need of a revamp and update.

In 2019, when we published the review of the RSE report, those recommendations were timely because we could incorporate them directly into our proposals to update the entire primary school curriculum. In February 2020, we published a draft primary curriculum framework, and it is a bit like the framework for the junior cycle, which set out the direction for developments at primary and included the recommendations from the review of RSE.