Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

That does not dispel some of my concerns but I understand where Dr. Grant is coming from.

I have discussed another point with Dr. Sullivan previously. It concerns the place of content in the curriculum and what it is we do in the world of Google and ChatGPT. I feel strongly that ChatGPT having read the entire works of Plato does not help me to structure a moral outlook on the world. I would have said to Dr. Sullivan that the very first curriculum document I used to open when I was planning my year ahead was the history curriculum one. With that, I could at least say that, for example, this year I would be doing migrant peoples, Stone Age peoples or the Egyptians. It was the one part of the curriculum I could get my hook into and say six weeks of work would be happening on that aspect. It would then inform my art, drama and come into Gaeilge. When I look at the draft of the specifications now, it seems a little boneless. There is a real conversation to be had about what we do concerning content in a world where it is a Google search away. I worry, however, that we are throwing the baby out with the bathwater because we need to know some things to build a framework. When I look at the new history curriculum, I do not quite have that sense of those content objectives. In a tangential way, perhaps, this comes back to the point made by Senator Mullen, even though I disagree with him on several things.