Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 January 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Dalton Tattan:

We do not have those figures. I am sure we can get them from our sister Department, the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Skills, and get them to the Deputy. They can be a significant enough portion. Some will defer, which is different again. They will have secured their place and in some instances, higher education institutions might allow them to defer for a year. That means they may take a spot in a first year undergraduate course this year but others may have had a change of mind or dropped out of a course and then they reapply to the CAO in February. We can get the figures. The CAO process is under way at present and will close on 1 February.