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

I agree with the need for reform of the leaving certificate. It has been reformed incrementally over the years, long before 2016. There are the leaving certificate vocational and applied programmes. The Deputy is right that we need more continuous assessment and more project-based work to be assessed. Covid has taught us that assessment, along with other forms of written exams and so on, is a viable and valid way of doing things. We cannot do it on the fly coming out of Covid, but Covid has taught us it can be done. The Minister will have proposals on reforming the leaving certificate into the future and the opportunity should be grasped once we emerge from Covid. I am 100% on that.

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