Dr. Peter Cullen:

The key thing with that qualification is that it is recognised by the universities as equivalent to the leaving certificate for entry into programmes like engineering. There is then the convincing of students that it is worth spending and investing time doing 30 credit modules, where the norm in an FET programme is 15 credits. I am not entirely sure what the solution is when it comes to improving the take-up of maths for STEM. We have had it on the books since 2014 and the numbers are very much not increasing in the way that one would expect them to.