Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 488: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to an environmental studies module or subject being taught in primary schools; if there are plans to introduce such a module; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3437/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Social, Environmental and Scientific Education (SESE) is a specific area of the curriculum at all levels in primary schools. The SESE curriculum seeks to enable the child to come to an understanding of the physical world, the relationship of humans with their environment, and the historical process through which that relationship has grown. The different strands of the SESE curriculum deal comprehensively, at a level appropriate to pupils of primary school age, with aspects of the human and natural environments and with environmental awareness and care.