Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I hope the Minister is correct in her assessment that the clarification will be enough to secure the support of the ASTI.

There is a time issue here because we are coming to the end of this Government's term. Whether it is next month or in April, we have a finite amount of time to resolve this. We need to resolve it before we head into a general election because so much work has been put into it that we need to try and address it. We are already rolling out the English syllabus - my daughter is one of those students in first year who will be the first cohort of students to undertake the new junior cycle reform.

I would be cautious in saying that we can go ahead with the CPD for those who were in favour of it and that will buy us time, but it will only buy us a certain amount of time. Eventually, we will have to come to a position where either everyone will be on board or I do not know how feasible it will be for us to carry on with the implementation of it.

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