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

This is an issue with which the Department has been dealing with in recent years with regard to how one exits the unique circumstances that pertained in Covid-19. It has not been easy and it is not easy. There is no easy way to phase out the predictive grades system. I will communicate to the Minister that the Deputy has raised this issue. I have no doubt that the Minister is engaging with all concerned at the moment. To be fair to the Department of Education, the State Examinations Commission and the expert people involved in the grading, it is a complex and evolved process. I hope they will do everything they possibly can to be fair to the students of this year.

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