Vol. 549 No. 1
227 Mr. Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be permitted to do the leaving certificate examination in a school adjacent to this person's home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6015/02]
The administration of the State examinations annually, catering for about 130,000 candidates in over 4,500 examination centres, is a major logistical challenge. The task would become impossible to administer if students, having been registered to take the examination in one school, were free to subsequently take the examinations in another school. The only reasonable position that my Department can adopt is that once entered by a particular school a student must take his/her examinations in a centre in that school.
