Ms M?ir?n N? Ch?ileachair:

There does not appear to be. In my submission rather than my opening statement, we would have looked, as did Ms Leydon and Mr. Duffy, at the performance of fourth-class pupils in PIRL and TIMS studies.

At primary level, our performance is extremely high across OECD countries and the EU when it comes to science and maths. There do not appear to be concerns. That was in the submission we made last week. There do not seem to be the same concerns we would express around the teaching of the Irish language, for instance. I know, over the years, the Teaching Council has engaged with some of the teacher education colleges around the standard of maths teaching, but that seems to have been addressed.