Ms Andrea Feeney:

Regarding the review and the timelines, I mentioned that the terms of reference and the construct - the governance and oversight arrangements - are with our board. We will be running examinations over the summer, so, realistically, it will be September when we will be starting in earnest with the review process. We will have an internal steering group but it will have a lot of external members. There will be experts in special educational needs and policy officials from the Department of Education.

We have identified some 30 key stakeholders across education and special needs that we need to consult during the review process. We hope that as much of that as possible will be face-to face consultation. We will get people around the table and have conversations and engagement with them. There will also be a research phase to the review. I cannot give the Senator a timeline at the moment. All I can say is what I said to Deputy Buckley, which is that we will do things as quickly as we can but in this space we have to work with the system. The SEC does not deliver a service to the system in an of itself. It works with the education system to provide the State examination service. We need to bring all of our stakeholders with us in terms of the delivery of the service. I cannot be specific on timelines at the moment.