David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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The ones available in England and the UK are quite impressive. I am interested to see what will happen here.

Deputy O'Reilly spoke about primary schools, and the importance of introducing children to physics and science at primary level and to what is now called science, technology, engineering, arts and maths, STEAM, education. It has gone beyond STEM. Could we start even earlier than that, at nursery, kindergarten and playschool? A dad rang me up one day, and again Deputy O'Reilly alluded to this, who said he wanted to send his daughter to a girls' school to do girls' subjects. That encapsulates where we at with stereotyping and the mind-set.

Specialist physics teachers across the board were spoken about, as well as a course in DCU. How many participants have gone through that course?