Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We have to have a system that will stop all the time-wasting by the ridiculous propositions that are being put forward by bodies charged with making sensible decisions. I, therefore, think that in this case we are in an exceptional circumstance. That is why I am asking the Minister to intervene and put to bed the proposition that there would be two courses, with one harder than the other, but the same marks and credits would be given for both. I cannot believe how much money we spent on all this consultation now, on what seems to me to be one of the most utterly ridiculous propositions I have ever heard. It should have been dismissed outright from the very beginning as a non-starter.

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