Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 June 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Junior Certificate History Curriculum: Discussion

2:50 pm

Mr. Kevin McCarthy:

A special committee will be established for each subject, as has happened in the case of English and will happen very shortly in the case of Irish, business studies and science and the year after in the case of other subjects. A committee will sit and identify the core statements of learning that link with history. Obviously, I imagine that would include statement 8 which has been quoted and I hope several others. I could make an argument to have others included, but that must be done by a committee which will include teachers-----