Mr. John Curtis:

One of the issues is with people moving in to private industry. Home economics teachers are also doing so. It has been more lucrative for them. That is what is happening. What is frustrating is that if one looks at the figures for the number of teachers who are out there, according to the Teaching Council register, technically, we should have enough teachers in all of these fields, but they have moved in to industry for various reasons and many of them have gone abroad. We are looking at trying to improve things and at more innovative solutions. Physics has been targeted, in particular, in some of the special courses the Department is putting on for people to upskill in order to teach physics. It is not that people are unaware of the difficulties. It is that it is very difficult to come up with solutions. That is where we are.