Ms Andrea Feeney:

The senior cycle reform process is ongoing and the work that was continuing apace was affected by the Covid interruption. The senior cycle is being reformed with the partners and stakeholders to look at issues such as continuous assessment and how we can have a more equitable approach to how we address assessment that looks at intervals of assessment rather than everything depending on a final, written examination. It is not that the final, written examination does not have a place, but we are looking at supplementing it with a more spaced-out approach to assessment.