Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There is a difficulty because, as the Deputy said, people enter into subject areas without explicitly committing to a future in teaching. It is only when they do a masters that they enter the teaching channel. The working group examined whether it could introduce a model which could identify an objective intake for subjects such as chemistry, physics, maths or business studies that would feed into the system. So far, it has been unable to produce such a model.

I am open to considering specific subject areas where we could have particular interventions. The difficulty is that to say with absolute certitude that we do not need a certain amount but-----

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