Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

I would suggest to the Minister that we front-load research in terms of the decision-making process. I welcome that there is a review but my worry is that this process will be slow and that many children will have to go through the current system with regard to foundation level mathematics and that will cause major difficulties for thousands of students around the country.

If we start with a platform of making sure we have an education system that is designed around the needs of the students, first and foremost to allow students to find a level that suits their ability, and is clearly in tune with the views of teachers, mistakes like this will not be made in the future. There is collateral damage from mistakes such as this. The collateral damage is that over a number of years, students go through a process which tells them they are failures. The pressure that puts on children is unacceptable.

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