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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 4 Nov 1998

Vol. 496 No. 1

Written Answers. - Leaving Certificate Examination.

Liam Burke

Question:

213 Mr. L. Burke asked the Minister for Education and Science when exam papers, particularly Irish and French papers from the leaving certificate, will be available to a person (details supplied) in County Cork who was refused access to these in September 1998 and wants a photocopy of all his papers. [22180/98]

This year in a major new initiative I provided an opportunity for leaving certificate students to view their marked scripts under supervision.

In the initial year of operation, due to reservations held by some of the interested parties, it was not possible to make the scripts available in subjects which involved a practical or oral component. For that reason the scripts in Irish and French would not have been available to the student referred to by the Deputy.

I did undertake to make scripts in those subjects available for viewing, on demand, to those students who sought a recheck, after the recheck process had concluded. However, as the student in question did not appeal his results in either Irish or French, it is not open to him to view those particular scripts.
The far reaching and innovative arrangements which I have put in place do not extend to providing candidates with photocopies of their examination scripts.
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