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. Kieran Christie:
I will let Mr. Gillespie take the second part of that question because he is more associated with that sector. On the consultation processes, it is a matter of public record. The NCCA subject development groups were the groups of ten or 15 people around a table who were supposed to take all the materials from the consultation process and devise a new syllabus. It has been changed now since September, only some weeks ago. They were denied access to all and any of the material that came in from anybody. In other words, if an organisation such as Conradh na Gaeilge, the ASTI, or the ISTA, put in a submission, the subject development groups actually never got to see it. They got a summary of it. That has been dealt with now so there is no point in labouring the point. It was our biggest bone of contention but it took a long and arduous process to get that turned around. Hopefully that will not be repeated into the future, or any version of it.
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