Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I have to say the experience we have had is that we talked to students, some who did it when it was an examination subject and some when it was not, and it was said that the school now does not have resources. Again, it may well be that there are fabulous projects, but we do not want it to be that there are just fabulous projects in well-resourced schools which have the luxury of bringing that in. However, when there are schools that are under pressure for resources, the subject that is not the examination subject often gets downplayed. I do not want to end up with a situation where we have CSPE and fabulous individual projects for some and, effectively, not for others where schools are under pressure. We will not dwell further on it but I must say that the evidence we have heard from students within the same school is that they saw the resources leave that subject as soon as it became a non-examination subject.