Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in details the consequences there will be to personnel numbers for the State examination section of her Department if the reforms of the junior certificate as outlined will proceed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47047/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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There are no plans to change staff numbers in the State Examinations Commission.

I have put a revised proposal on the table which is different from that originally proposed. This has not been accepted by the teacher unions. What is clear is that reform will be introduced gradually over a period of time and will only be fully implemented in September 2019 (for terminal examination in June 2022) and that there will be no reduction in staffing requirements for the State Examinations Commission.