Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is where the conversation is at. My sister is a teacher and my mother was a lecturer for years. I am surrounded by teachers. If we are looking at trying to encourage more people to go into secondary school teaching, particularly people with a real passion for their subject and strong background, it is about looking at innovative ways to get more people to go down that route and maybe they will spark an interest in students in relation to that particular subject. What the witnesses are saying is that that has not been looked at and there is no international equivalence in respect of what that might look like. If it is not the case, that is okay. I am just asking the question.