Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)

I am. I thank the Chair and the witnesses. I have been listening in.

I have a question for Mr. McWeeney and for Ms Lynch from the National Parents Council. Picking up on the piece on AI in education, Fionn gave an example in terms of how he uses AI for cramming before exams. There are some concerns with the leaving certificate reform that people will not use it just for studying purposes but will present AI-generated papers or essays as their own work and that the new additional assessment components for the leaving certificate might lend themselves to such opportunities, and about the potential implications of that. I wonder if Mr. McWeeney or Ms Lynch have a perspective in relation to that, if there are concerns that that type of thing might happen in the first instance, how it might be addressed or minimised from a operational point of view, the protections that might be there and the training, for example, that might be provided to teachers as well.

Other witnesses may want to come in on that as well.