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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
- Ruth Coppinger: Did the Department not agree to stretch it out a bit more? 
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
- Ruth Coppinger: The Department has not even done that yet. 
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
- Ruth Coppinger: I will raise the issue of AI. My experience in the Dáil is that the Government is in thrall to AI. That is obvious from any discussion that comes up about data centres or AI. AI is killing critical thinking and creativity and it is being designed by billionaires whose ultimate aim is to get rid of a lot of jobs. We are seeing that already in many sectors where AI has been introduced.... 
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
- Ruth Coppinger: Would the TUI look into that? 
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
- Ruth Coppinger: I am interested to hear how the union representatives feel about the biggest change to the leaving certificate being introduced in the midst of a chronic teacher recruitment and retention crisis. The schools in my constituency are in an urban area of Dublin where rents are high. I am hearing stories of massive teacher shortages in a whole range of subjects. Obviously this will impact on... 
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
- Ruth Coppinger: If somebody in a school with a teacher shortage cannot get help with their science project or French project because the school cannot get a language teacher, is that going to be taken into account at the end of the year in the marks? 
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
- Ruth Coppinger: It means that urban, working-class schools will be hit again. Every school is suffering but they are suffering the most. 
