Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We will continue to talk. It is not six months but nine months away to next September when first year students will come to do the new curriculum in English and English alone. In June 2017 they will do a paper that will account for 60% of their marks, a paper that will be set by the State Examinations Commission and that will be marked by the State examinations examiners, and will roll on slowly from that point. This is measured, steady progress but in a radical direction. I am proud to say that it is a political project that is overdue and I am happy to be associated with it.

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