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
1:35 am
Mr. John Curtis:
There are some ironies here as well. I have been speaking about guidance counsellors and teachers for the past couple of hours but even if the Department gave us the resources and allowed us an allocation to have extra guidance we would not be able to get the teachers at the moment. We need to have more upskilling programmes in place for them. Members can again see the dilemma we are in at the moment, to a certain extent. We will navigate our way through it, because as I said the teachers are fantastic and the leadership in our schools is great, but it is a challenging time.