Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank our guests for attending the committee. My first question is for Ms Forster. The committee's purpose is to produce a report that will outline what we recommend as senior cycle reform, taking into account the expert evidence that we hear. In doing that we need to have an accurate assessment of the benefits of the leaving certificate as it is at present. Briefly, what are the benefits of the leaving certificate as it exists at present? A lot of the time, we talk necessarily negatively about it.