An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Seanad Éireann — 2025-12-09
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Joe Conway (IND), Cultural and Educational Panel

We heard Senator Boyhan ask the Leader if he could prevail on the new Minister for Education and Youth to come to the Seanad and talk about institutional redress. I want to add to that. I do not know how these things are done but maybe we could prevail on her to do a double gig. This week DCU published an interesting piece of research called the Teacher Occupational Wellbeing Research. It makes for grim reading because four out of five teachers report burn-out symptoms and undue stress from curricular change and many other inputs into their working lives. We have in this country a greatly improved pupil-teacher ratio but it is still above the European average. It is items like that which we might profitably discuss with the Minister and all the other things that attend to curriculum change and ancillary pressures that come with that, such as parental expectations and so on. I prevail on the Leader to explore those issues with the Minister, perhaps sometime in the new year. I think it would be a very profitable debate and would be very informative for the House.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-09