Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The State Examinations Commission is an independent body which operates and is responsible for the running of our State exams. It appoints examiners to correct junior certificate and leaving certificate papers. It behoves all of us as public representatives to uphold the integrity and not to create fear or scaremonger about the process and outcome of the leaving certificate results. The exam papers have always been and will always be corrected properly because there are checks and balances, conferences, meetings and a way in which we do it. Please let us not cause fear for the young people who have just finished their exams.