Deirdre Clune (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)

In her initial response, the Minister of State mentioned the grants provided last week for IT provision in schools. With regard to teacher training, teacher competence in this area and continual professional development, has the Minister of State examined how teachers avail of IT and how they get themselves up to speed in imparting knowledge to students? It continues to be a criticism that teachers are not trained to deal with the subject of information technology.

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