Ms Andrea Feeney:

I absolutely can, and I appreciate it is an emotive issue. Our team are very skilled in dealing with parents, school authorities and students in relation to the scheme of reasonable accommodation. We are empathetic and compassionate in how we deal with those students. We will seek to provide as many accommodations as we can. The concern is that if the system were to be gamed, those are the students who would lose the most, if you like, in that others who do not need additional time would be granted it. In those circumstances, students with special educational needs would be further disadvantaged. It is a concern. We, as an examinations body, and in common with other examinations bodies throughout the world, must be concerned with the integrity of the examinations.