Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 754: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department allows the amalgamation of different leaving certificate results onto one script; if mature students can do this; her views on same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9428/07]

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.

I have made enquiries with the Commission in relation to the issue raised by the Deputy and the position is as follows:

A certificate of the results achieved in the Leaving Certificate is issued to each candidate in respect of the subjects taken in any year. These results are also forwarded to the Central Applications Office when the provisional Leaving Certificate results are issued each August. Any subsequent changes of grades arising as a consequence of the appeals process are also forwarded to the CAO.

It is not possible for the results achieved by a candidate across more than one sitting of the Leaving Certificate examination, whether they are entered by a school or as an external applicant, to be amalgamated into one certificate.

In the case of the Links Modules subject in the Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme, the marks obtained by a candidate in the portfolio component are carried forward to the next year where the candidate is repeating that subject as it is not permissible to submit a second portfolio. These portfolio marks are then added to the marks obtained by the repeat candidate in the written examination in the subject.