Ms Hilary O'Meara:

The only thing I would add is that we do not know the future of this. It is to be re-imagined and many new jobs will be created. We do not yet know how teachers will perform their jobs in future. We have to imagine it and that is the journey we will all go on. We need to communicate, be really transparent and talk about this because in a vacuum we will be filled with fear and everybody will be worrying. This is something I constantly talk to my employees about at Accenture. We are constantly putting tools in their hands to get them comfortable with the technology and to understand it. We need to make sure that Ireland does not leave a vacuum that fear replaces and we get a lot of negative narrative. What we should do is embrace and accept this, reskill, keep an eye on it as it moves along, quickly pivot the skills to the new areas and get ready for this massive disruption. Communication and talking about it is really important.