Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

Having said that, individual teachers make a real difference and we all know that from our own children as well as on a system wide basis. It is individual teachers and it is the culture in individual schools led by principals. Individual teachers make the difference by running the team or whatever. We have some substitution available for that during the school day but much of this activity takes place outside the school day and we are indebted to those teachers.