Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party)
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Is there a structured CPD element? There certainly was not in the past, although I know my experience of this is very much out of date. I assume a lot of this is still summertime work; for example, courses being run out of the local secondary school, where the Italian and Spanish students are dropping in. I did several years of this before I went back to train as a primary school teacher. When I entered Coláiste Mhuire in Marino, I was very far from the finished article, despite having had a couple of years in a classroom of sorts. I do not know if I am necessarily comforted by the answer that Ms Grennan has given. What requirements are there for the colleges to provide CPD in a structured manner?