Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 10 November 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education

Mr. Dalton Tattan:

As I touched on earlier, we will seek advice on this matter and the contract we have with the company. It has to be looked at in the round and everyone, including that company, was under that very intense pressure and was working around the clock to achieve this. Education Testing Services, ETS, the independent company that came in to check and give us assurances when the coding errors were discovered, recognised the level of complexity in the code. We have to look at all those things in the round in making a call on it.