Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Skills and Apprenticeship Landscape in Ireland: Institute of Physics

Ms Fiona Longmuir:

We are looking forward to engaging with the new support service for teachers on that community-building aspect.

I will return to the Deputy's earlier point. I am delighted he brought it up because we think we should be starting in nurseries. Even looking at things like toys that young people are given to play with, those gender stereotypes start to creep in so early from those very young ages. Again, the aim is not to have them say, "I am doing physics right now and here are all these physics terms that I know". It is just about young people being continuously told that all options are available to them and they are not limited by their gender, race, ability or anything else.