Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Impact of Covid-19: Education – Return to School and School Transport

Photo of John LahartJohn Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am not trying to trap Ms Fanning. I have a supplementary question. All going well, it is the ambition that those two sets of State exams would continue if, as Ms Fanning said, the virus behaves itself. Having come through what we came through with this year's leaving certificate, if the virus does not behave itself is there a date on or beyond which the NPCPP will decide it cannot trust that things will work out the way we want them to work out? One of the significant lessons from this year's leaving certificate was the lack of decisiveness when it came to making a decision. I appreciate the vast array of influencing factors that had to be considered in making that decision, but I suspect that by the autumn or the return of the school year, which is two months away, a definitive decision should be made on that.

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