That is a load of questions but I will go through them. In regard to the last one, there were sample questions for the in-service days. I accept that they were not sample papers, they were sample questions. I accept also that there was a degree of dissatisfaction, and I expressed it myself, with that period of in-service I refered to last term. Sample papers and a programme of in-service are currently being worked out between the various interested parties under the aegis of the entity and will be available for September.
The Deputy asked if it was not my change of heart which brought about the delay in the introduction of assessment. Deputy Deenihan and I know quite well that in the educational world, particularly in education terms, if a consensus is arrived at that is the best way to go about one's business. It must be painstaking and it often seems slow and laborious but it is not really so. I would have wished I could have had a percentage of assessment introduced in the first junior certificate to be sat for in June 1992. Given the time available and the various views legitimately held by the various interests it was not possible to do so, but I hope that, under the wise guidance of the chairman and the interested bodies, a consensus conclusion will be arrived at. Finally, I remain committed to a degree of assessment in subject materials for junior certificate level. I am not so overwrought about when it comes in but I am very keen that it does come in and will be in place and remain to be evaluated and monitored and worked to for all children in future.