Dr. Seán Rowland:

I will return to Deputy O'Brien's question.

It is a case of gazing into a crystal ball, but the technology keeps evolving so one must keep abreast of what is going on at MIT and with social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter. We have some international names as students, including one of our international rugby players; it is already in the public arena that he does PR for us. When he tweets about something, 145,000 people read it. That is incredible. Five such people are more influential than any newspaper. We need to find out who are the opinion makers and make sure they are informed with the facts, not biased opinions. As we move forward, the shape and reach of technology will evolve. No one can predict where we will be in ten years' time. The Teaching Council and Quality and Qualifications Ireland, QQI, are very important in respect of not diluting standards and quality. That goes back to pedagogy, which is the core. Technology is only a tool to help deliver the core. If the core is not right, nothing will be right. We do not have to get lost providing a historical programme that is out of touch. We need teachers who have had a substantial, rigorous teacher education and who are digitally prepared to go into the classroom and meet children who are digitally prepared from the age of one. Anecdotally, we hear that children are told to put things away and told that nobody uses them in the classroom and it turns out the person is referring to an iPad, which is the greatest source of knowledge one can find as long as it is used in a disciplined fashion. We need teachers who can exercise discipline and use the technology. That is what we do at Hibernia. Our students have graduated using technology. Online, they can access the largest body of research in the world. They are great teachers; there is no question about it.