Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is not the first time that reply has been read out this evening. The Minister talked about three out of four of the asks having been delivered upon but, as I said earlier, the most important one for an awful lot of students and parents has not been delivered. That has been said, however. I do not expect to get a different answer from anybody else.

Those mitigations the Minister talked about with regard to the examination are necessary considering the difficulties. Deputy Ó Laoghaire and others spoke about the fact that not everybody has the same 24 hours and not everybody had the same school year or two-year period. People have been out due to sickness. Teachers have been out and it has an impact. There are probably students who can put a couple of sample papers in front of them and get six A1s but that is not everybody.

The fear we also have is that the Department is absolutely committed to maintaining the leaving certificate and we are not going to see a sign of reform. Could the Minister give me an answer regarding what the reforms are and the planned timeline?

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