Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

The nature of the online marking work undertaken by the State Examinations Commission was to ensure that the documentation and the examinations coming in in various subjects, as many as possible, and the number was expanded, could be scanned in and then made available for the examiners online to remove the need to send out the examination papers. That was the major project that the State Examinations Commission carried out to try to get the results out as speedily as possible and to get the appeals process implemented as speedily as possible. In 2019, the State Examinations Commission had to undertake a speedy appeals process following a major court case the year before. It brought back the appeals process dates so it was able to do as much as possible of that online.