Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

It is not open to me to change something that is on the course. This is February and leaving certificate students are finalising or revising their course so the work remains part of that course until next June. It is also part of the fifth year course. That syllabus was established a couple of years ago. When I say that the NCCA advises me on it, I do not know of any situation, nor would any be desirable, in which a Minister for Education and Science would determine what should be on the course. If that was the case, we could all interfere with the syllabus.

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