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

I am meeting with the Teaching Council next week and I will discuss this matter with the council. It is a question of identifying the teaching qualifications. As we all know, we may all be elected but that does not necessarily mean we are qualified politicians, per se. We have arrived here with different sets of qualifications. The teaching of politics is not as specific as teaching one of the STEM subjects to which we referred earlier. I would hope to have the subject available as soon as possible for young people entering transition year next September.

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