Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

The student is responsible for finding the place where he or she will sit the exams. Students who attend private colleges or grind schools generally have provision made by those schools for the exams. The once-off external student, however, must go to the local school. I met a student who did not realise it was her responsibility to do that.

Difficulties can arise when a student may have left the local school to attend a private school but then wants to go back to the local school to sit the exam. Conflicts and considerations arise in that situation.

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