Ms Evelyn O'Connor:

We have an 11% increase in first preference applications for post-primary undergraduate initial teacher education programmes. We currently have 118,000 teachers registered and in excess of 22,000 teachers are registered to teach the STEM subjects. In science we have 11,512; maths, 7532; computer science, 49; and engineering and technology, 3088. That is all the data I have at present but obviously it is a recognised challenge-----