Gary Gannon (Dublin Central, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I want to quote from a press release from Epilepsy Ireland last week, following the announcement that a young man had to leave his examination after an emergency. It stated, "A seizure is a seizure, whether it happens an hour before the exam or during the exam, it has the same impact on you." My question is specifically about people who have to leave examinations during the examination. I wrote to the Minister about an issue last week where a young man had to leave his history examination after experiencing acute appendicitis. That young man was initially told that he would not be able to repeat the leaving certificate examination, which he had to leave in agony. Following a sustained campaign by his family on social media and politicians getting involved, he was then allowed to sit the deferred examination. We are asking for a simple change of policy that lets people who experience these extreme situations during an examination know that they do not have to go on social media to relive that pain and agony just to be able to resit an examination. Can we offer a change of policy?

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