Mr. Dalton Tattan:

That is a hard question. Understandably, there can be frustration over the time it takes to work through subject and curriculum development and new specifications, particularly if you are changing assessment processes as part of that or introducing new ones for new subjects that may not have been there before. Much will depend on what were the areas of agreement in the areas where further development work was done. From the Department's perspective, we are conscious of the time it has taken to get to the senior cycle review report at this stage and we are keen that we would be able to start seeing the change as quickly as we possibly can. We have to think about the implementation around this as to whether we can have a cascade effect, with different reforms and different things happening on a roll-out basis, rather than waiting a considerable time for everything to fall into place.