Mr. Fionn McWeeney:

I thank the Deputy for the question. When I discussed this with my teacher one time after some protest about the new leaving cert, their general thoughts and the general reason they said they were protesting was not the fear of AI; it was that they had not received the appropriate training as to how to teach the new curriculum and how it would play out in the school environment. In the new leaving cert, with the project-based assessment, we already have that at junior cert level. In my class, in my year, very few people have used AI because the fact is that there are free resources available for teachers and the general public that are able to catch AI out. That is increasingly common with the advance of AI and with more AI chatbots coming out. I know two people in my year who used AI and they were both caught. I think the main reason teachers are worried about the upcoming leaving cert is that they have not received the appropriate training for the new leaving cert.