Mr. Dalton Tattan:

The Minister has already said it is her intention to proceed with a comprehensive review as soon as is practicable. As Deputy O'Sullivan says, it is to learn the lessons rather than to play a blame game, both in relation to calculated grades but there are other things too such as assessment more generally and the experience of teachers in that regard. To do that we need to complete out the process. We have two key remaining steps, one is the exams themselves, which as I said are on the brink of starting next week, and then there is also the final stage of appeals. There has already been a stage 1 and stage 2 appeals process, but there is a third independent stage operated by independent scrutineers and that is under way at the moment. We expect it will complete out over the coming weeks.

There is one question that we have to figure out.

Given that there is litigation, to which I referred earlier, does that in some way hamper our ability to proceed with the review? We are very keen to get the review under way and for it to be meaningful we want it to move as quickly as possible. We will need to check that aspect, however, to ensure we can proceed fully on all the parts that we want to do.