Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the 2022 Junior Certificate exam results will be given to the students who sat the exam; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52770/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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On Tuesday last week, the SEC announced this year’s Junior Cycle results will be available in schools on Wednesday 23 November 2022. Candidates will also be able to access their results online from 4pm on that date noting that the online service is not intended to replace the valuable results service and advice provided by schools at results issue time.

I am conscious that students are keen to receive their Junior Cycle examinations results for 2022.

This year saw a welcome return to examinations for all candidates across Leaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate Applied and Junior Cycle programmes. Providing examinations has been a significant undertaking in the current year considering the ongoing effects of Covid-19 and the changes made to examinations delivery as a result. The requirement for increased numbers of teachers to mark the examinations across all subjects especially at Junior Cycle has been particularly challenging in the current year.

In a small number of subjects, in which the examiner supply challenges were most acute, it was not possible to complete the marking and the marking process is ongoing. Marking in these subjects is being undertaken at this time by examiners who had been marking during the summer with these teams supplemented by other teachers qualified to mark in the relevant subjects including teachers who had marked at Leaving Certificate this year. Unlike in the summer marking period, teachers are in schools during the day and only available to mark at evenings and weekends. The SEC has an absolute responsibility to examination candidates to ensure that their work is marked to the highest standards of quality and integrity and the Commission must be able to stand over the results it issues each year.