Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)

I will deal with the programme for international student achievement, PISA, surveys. Irish 15 year olds have consistently achieved among the highest scores of countries surveyed in literacy. In 2006 we were sixth overall and we were second only to Finland in the European Union. Irish student achievements in science in 2006 were significantly above the OECD average——