Ms Carmel Ryan:

The rapid prompting method, RPM, is not fully researched, only being about ten years old. The Department of Education's response would typically be that it is not researched and it is not evidence-based, and until more research is done, it would not be in a position to support the method in schools. Some schools are trying it and are having good results with it. There is a school in Longford that has tried it, as well as some schools in Wexford and Mayo. They are using it as a complementary method along with other methods in the school. They had great success with it.