Beverley Flynn (Mayo, Independent)
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Question 733: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will allow senior trade examinations as there are many people who sat senior trade examinations in the past but need to complete a section of their senior trade subject in order to complete all compulsory sections; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34106/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The Department of Education and Science announced in 1999 that it would end the operation of the Senior Trade Examinations in 2003, but the State Examinations Commission, established in 2003, actually continued the process for a further and last time in 2004. These examinations are no longer made available. However, an alternative arrangement was agreed in discussions between the Department, the Further Education and Training Awards Council, the Institutes of Technology, the Dublin Institute of Technology and FÁS. Under this arrangement, persons interested in completing their qualification should contact Apprenticeship Services, FÁS, 27-33 Upper Baggot St, Dublin 4. FÁS will then make the appropriate arrangements with an Institute of Technology to facilitate access for eligible applicants to assessment leading to a Level 6 Advanced Certificate from the Further Education and Training Awards Council.