Written answers
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
Department of Education and Skills
State Examinations
Michael Lowry (Tipperary, Independent)
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461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a request by an organisation (details supplied) that reasonable accommodations be made at State examinations for a particular provision for students with epilepsy; if examination candidates who suffered a seizure will be given the opportunity to re-sit any impacted examinations within the same examination cycle and within the same academic year; her views on whether students who suffered a seizure will have an unfair disadvantage in respect of other candidates in the same examination cycle; if she has discussed this matter with the State Examinations Commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17638/22]
Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations.
In view of this I have forwarded your question to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.
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