Ms Andrea Feeney:

There was an oral as part of the previous junior certificate, but it was optional and it was available to approximately 40% of the students. There was 60% that did not have that opportunity. The task students undertake as part of the classroom-based assessment is a communication task. It can be an oral assessment they undertake with their teacher in the classroom. That is a different issue, but there can be an oral assessment that is reported on as a classroom-based assessment and the result is put on the JCPA. That opportunity is there.