Maria Byrne (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that. I hope I am not insulting the Minister of State in pointing out she is not the Minister for Education.I appreciate her acknowledgement that students have been through a lot, as the Minister, Deputy Foley, has acknowledged as well. I hope some leniency is given to students. They are in the middle of the second week of examinations. It has been a really awful time for students and they are still very upset and downbeat about it. I hope leniency will prevail because the situation is not fair on the students, especially those who are looking to go to college or do an apprenticeship. They need their marks and many of them are concerned that if their mathematics result is down, they will not get into their course. There is a great emphasis by the Government on science, technology, engineering and mathematics, STEM, subjects. I thank the Minister of State for taking this matter and for undertaking to engage with the Minister on it.