Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We all know the phrase, mol an óige agus tiocfaidh sí. Last week we saw young entrepreneurs at the RDS at the online Young Scientist exhibition. I ask the Taoiseach to consider a hybrid-type leaving certificate examination this year because young people deserve it. They have been hugely discommoded, as have their parents and everybody else in the school community. They need that to be assessed and a decision made on it very soon. They are our future and our hope for the future. We should allow them to have a hybrid exam because of the amount of time they missed last year and this year, not to mention the uncertainty around returning to education, being educated, the conditions in which they are learning and the lack of investment in education. I ask that the Taoiseach, along with the Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, would make a decision on this very soon.

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