Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 October 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills

4:30 pm

Photo of Matt CarthyMatt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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I am also allowed to act as if I have not been living on another planet for the past six months. According to an article on the journal.ie, "As part of contingency planning for the Leaving Certificate 2020, the State Examinations Commission hired Polymetrika to develop the code used to calculate the grades." Previous to that, Polymetrika "had been engaged in an advisory capacity" to a technical board within the Department. Is either of those two statements incorrect?