Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, STEM, in Irish Education: Discussion

Mr. John Irwin:

There are some very good data for 2019. The Department published a document with good baseline data but, unfortunately, it arrived just before the pandemic. For the first part of the implementation plan from 2017 to 2020, the Department conducted a data-gathering exercise and brought together an awful lot of data. We are looking at the next phase of the implementation, which has been delayed, in essence, by three years because we have been in emergency response for two of those years. However, I must say the Department did bring together some very good baseline data.