Ulick Burke (Fine Gael)

I hope we will have such a debate soon.

I ask the Leader to request the Minister for Education and Science to review her determination to publish school evaluations on her Department's website against the wishes of the teachers' unions. In order to maintain goodwill with the teachers, the Minister must carry out further consultations on this matter. Following their recent conferences, some of the teachers' unions clearly indicated they wanted further consultations. There is little disagreement between the Minister and the unions over her proposals, provided there is more consultation to resolve the outstanding points. It all boils down to the continuing endeavours by certain sections of the media to publish league tables. If we take that route, people within the education system will become demoralised. If we can afford to do that in the current situation, things will have reached a very low ebb.