Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 473: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the results of the leaving certificate for ordinary and honours Irish for 2006; the way this compares with results for each of the past ten years for both male and female students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40568/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations, including organising the holding of examinations and issuing the results of examinations.

In view of this, I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 474: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the target she announced of an increased number of males achieving honours in the Irish paper in the leaving certificate 2006; the way the results compared with the targets set; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40569/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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My Department did not set a target for the number of males achieving particular grades in the 2006 Leaving Certificate Higher Level Irish examination.

I have requested the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) to focus on increasing the attractiveness of Irish to all students, male and female, in its current review of curriculum provision for Irish in post-primary education.

Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 475: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of students, male and female, who did not sit or who did not complete the Irish examination, honours or pass, in the leaving certificate examination 2006; the persons who were required to do so; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40603/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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In accordance with the Rules and Programme for Secondary Schools, the approved course for the established Leaving Certificate must include not less than five approved examination subjects, of which one must be Irish. The exception to this is where a student has been granted an exemption from the study of Irish under the terms of my Department's circular letter M10/94.

There is no requirement to sit any particular subject in the established Leaving Certificate Examination in order to be awarded a certificate. Each candidate will be awarded a certificate showing the grades obtained by him/her in whatever examinations have been taken, regardless of the overall number of subjects.

Provisional figures indicate that out of 50,955 candidates who sat the established Leaving Certificate or the Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme (LCVP) examinations in 2006, some 43,928 took the subject Irish (4543 at Foundation Level; 26,437 at Ordinary Level and 12,948 at Higher Level).