Dr. Anne Looney:

I am absolutely ad idemwith my colleague that by far and away the best solution for any group of young people in a school is to have a highly qualified and motivated teacher. In a situation where one does not have such a teacher, as happened in mathematics, for example, schools can partner and, as Mr. Rowland said, there is a teacher in a room for some subjects, particularly for senior classes. That may be something that a school would want to do but it would not want to be doing an entire leaving certificate course in that way. Certainly in the longer term, schools would need to be looking to have a qualified person in the room for that age group.