Pádraig O'Sullivan (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is probably the typical teacher in me where I ask that we might bring it back to the schools. I have had the privilege of serving on about five or six boards of management at this stage at primary level and, as I have said, I was a second level teacher. I have seen the inside of a fair number of schools. Thankfully, none of them will be able to identify themselves from what I am about to say about basic things like the condition of labs. I was in a school recently where the labs were the same as they were 20 years ago for me in the late 1990s or the early 2000s. I had the privilege to teach in schools with brand-new extensions and state-of-the-art facilities. I would be particularly interested to ask for the witnesses' views on the differences between primary level and secondary level. Can they comment on that briefly, please?