Michael McCarthy (Cork South West, Labour)
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Question 123: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of errors on each leaving certificate paper that have come to light during the exam and were notified to students for each of the past three years; the procedures he is putting in place to ensure that exam papers are error-free; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16359/11]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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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, determining procedures in places where examinations are conducted including the supervision of examinations and making arrangements for the marking of work presented for examination.

In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you. My Department has published on its website (www.education.ie) the reports from the State Examinations Commission relating to the preparation and productions issues which arose in the examinations in 2010, and the report in 2009 on the security breach which led to a re-scheduling of English Paper 2.