Ulick Burke (Fine Gael)

I support my colleagues' requests for discussions on the issues mentioned. At the start of this new academic year, education is in a state of chaos and crisis. Will the Leader request the Minister for Education and Science to come to the House to explain how he intends to deal with the uncertainty in second level education regarding supervision and substitution? The Minister inherited this legacy from a former inactive Minister who succeeded in destroying the morale of many second level teachers. I ask the Leader to ask the new Minister to come to the House, dispense with the ad hoc manner of the last five years and set in motion a proper system where teachers can be respected and work without other tensions encroaching on them. He should set up a system where students and parents can be satisfied that teachers are allowed to do their work.