Mr. Dalton Tattan:

I thank the Deputy for that. Undoubtedly, there certainly are learnings from the hybrid model and the model, taken together, over the past couple of years. I might ask Mr. Kenny to come in in a couple of minutes to talk a bit more on some of the work that is ongoing around that.

One of the lessons, certainly, concerns the issue of the grade inflation. We sought as best we could in the circumstances and the time that we had to support schools and teachers around the estimated process but it is very challenging. It is a novel thing and it is not within teachers' training, in their initial teacher education or as part of continuing professional development, CPD, to do formal assessment for State certification. It is something which we certainly, in the context of any senior cycle review, would need to reflect on in terms of ensuring that were we to go down that particular path as some form of school-based assessment, we would provide proper support, guidance etc. for schools to be able to do that.

Mr. Kenny may want to come in to talk a little more about some of the formal reflections around it that we are doing as well.