Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth
Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Preston Ó Caoimh:
In rooms like this. We are happy to be here, but at the end of the day, I am not the only student in the country. I am here to represent 90% of students who go to school and that is a lot of people. I cannot put forward the views of every student studying in Ireland. That is not fair. When it comes to senior cycle reform, I sit on the NCCA, which is amazing, but by the time stuff comes to the NCCA, it has already been decided. We get the final draft of everything. We are not there from the beginning saying this is what is happening, we cannot function like this or we cannot do this or that. It has to come from the top that the ISSU is included, but also that students in schools and other organisations, such as Comhairle na nÓg or other youth organisations, are being consulted. It is not just about the Irish Second-Level Students Union.
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