Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I accept that but comments were made to which I feel I have to respond.

I have no issue with the Minister for Education and Skills speaking to the Dáil. A marking scheme has been devised and there is an idea of grades instead of exams. No individual Deputy is going to organise how the grading system is going to work. I have been in education and I understand how complex marking schemes are, even for the leaving certificate proper as we knew it. A non-leaving certificate examination is going to be complex, difficult and challenging for all concerned. It is better that once an announcement is ready to be made, in terms of the detail of a marking scheme and how it is going to work, that is when it is made. It is very difficult for the students in particular as they endeavour to look to their future.

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