Ms Rosie Bissett:

What I would like to say to the committee and I hope it will address with the officials of the Department and State Examinations Commission when they are before the committee shortly, is to get a clear answer as to why not now when this can be done everywhere else. Students can struggle through our second level school system and get into Trinity College Dublin or the University of Galway or any university in Ireland and get it straight away. A student can do A-levels across the Border and get it straight away. Why not now?