Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is important to point out that the initial advice to the Minister from the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, following consultation, was that we should keep a State examination and that it should continue to be set by the State and marked and assessed independently. The Minister has gone down a different route. I heard him say at one of the teaching conferences in the spring this was a personal political project of his.

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