Paudge Connolly (Cavan-Monaghan, Independent)
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Question 910: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on making the scrúdú cáiliochta sa Ghaeilge available on a twice-yearly basis to applicants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15415/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Coláiste Mhuire Marino has been contracted by my Department to provide the SCG examination in 2006, 2007 and 2008 on the basis of holding a main examination each year followed by a repeat examination. The main examination for 2006 was held on the 18, 19 and 20 April 2006 in a number of centres throughout the country. There were 785 applicants for the examination. Coláiste Mhuire will provide a repeat examination in autumn 2006 for any candidates who sat the April 2006 examination and failed to pass any module or modules of that examination.

Prior to 1999 candidates for the SCG examination were required to pass all four components of the SCG in the one year. Since 1999 however candidates have been allowed to take the SCG on a modular basis. This facilitates candidates who wish to do so to attempt a module or a number of modules at different sittings in different years. Candidates who pass in any one module of the examination are exempt from that module for a period not exceeding five years and are thus afforded a five-year period in which to pass all four modules of the examination. I am satisfied with the adequacy of existing arrangements for the provision of one main examination each year followed by a repeat examination.