Ms Phil Fox:

Certainly, we are very happy to do anything we can do within our role to assist and support the committee in its work. We wish it well with this work. It is very important for everyone in society that this work is done.

We have the role to promote. We have access to the register of teachers and we can communicate with teachers in that way. Certainly, if that is something that would be of assistance, we can look at how we might be able to assist in that way.

One other point that might be helpful to know is that there are several routes to registration - primary, post-primary and further education - and there are different requirements under those routes to registration. It may be the case that some of those in the ECCE sector would be eligible to register under some of the routes. That would be worth checking for each of the individual teachers and it would be on a case-by-case basis.