Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is important that we have to go back to the outdated leaving certificate this year. While I accept it is very hard to deliver a fair system when one does not have a consistently applied source to standardise teachers' assessment results, we must learn from this experience and embed within the two years of the senior cycle credible projects in order that continuous assessment can occur within the leaving certificate and we can have a hybrid system in 2023 and beyond. Reform of the leaving certificate started in 2016, but we have yet to see a published roadmap for it. We need to move on because apprenticeships and the CAO are moving on and the leaving certificate cannot be left behind.

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