Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Young Social Innovators: Discussion

Ms Karen Murphy:

We are an iPad-based school and the great thing about that is that the responses from the student body were immediate, because we all had access to the Internet. I do not recall that we actually used the library for anything. We did have many meetings in the library. Our library space is quite big. In respect of information, though, we were lucky that we had the Internet at our fingertips. We used Microsoft Forms for our surveys. We had 969 students in our school as of September, and the majority of our surveys received 700 or 800 responses and we got them immediately. From an environmental perspective, there was also no paper trail. To answer the Chair's question, we did not use the library for research purposes.