Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)

That was a slightly different event and a different situation.

Deputy Broughan is a professional educationalist, whereas I am not. I cannot argue with him in respect of the points he has articulated. However, the note with which I have been supplied states that it is not feasible to teach everything in school and that education policy is becoming increasingly focused on learning over the length of a person's life span. Young people are learning how to use computers in the day-to-day environment of school. I have seen evidence of this in my own home with my 17 year old son who is always using the computer to complete homework assignments and to do other things.

I presume the Deputy was referring to computer science being taken as a specific subject at second level.

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