Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)

From the Minister's reply I take it that he is to receive the report tomorrow. How convenient that is when we are debating it in the Houses of the Oireachtas today. This is another fine mess which happened on the Minister's watch. It is easy in this case to make the superintendent the fall guy for another systems failure in the commission or the Department. We must be the only country in the Western world where a problem such as this arises in one examination centre and the entire system is knocked out for every other student sitting their leaving certificate examination. If anything describes the dysfunctional nature of the Minister's Department it is this.

Is the Minister telling this House that had the information from the supervisor been given to the examination commission earlier, contingency papers would have been arranged and provided for in all the examination centres?

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