The Irish Farmers Association has called for a planned new Leaving Cert module on climate action to recognise the “environmental credentials of Irish agriculture”.
Alice Doyle, the IFA Farm Family Committee chair, and Jackie Whelan Fagan, IFA regional executive, lobbied Simon Harris, the Minister for Further and Higher Education, and the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment earlier this year about the formulation of a new subject entitled Climate Action and Sustainable Development.
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