Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

On the issue of stakeholders, what contact has the Department had with the Irish Second-Level Students Union, ISSU? What contact does the Department plan to have with it in the future to get its opinion on things? Many of the students who are sitting the November examinations feel aggrieved because they were given 100% in respect of oral examinations in March but now they are being penalised for sitting the examinations as that is being taken away. I find it really disconcerting that 12,215 people have appealed and that we are just trying to dismiss them and not acknowledge what they have been through and the injustice that has been done to them.