Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 17 November 2004
438 Mr. Kehoe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person in the process of obtaining leaving certificate mathematics can make an application to join the Garda before the examination results or while they are pending; if the application will only be valid once the examination has been passed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29342/04]
View answerEntry to the Garda is governed by the An Garda Síochána (Admissions and Appointments) Regulations 1988, as amended. The educational requirements for entry to the Garda are set out in regulation 5(1)(d) of the 1988 regulations which provide that the commissioner shall not admit a person as a trainee unless the person has, before 1 September in the year in which the said advertisement was so published, obtained: (i) in the leaving certificate examination of the Department of Education and Science or the leaving certificate vocational programme examination of that Department — (1) a grade not lower than C3 at foundation level, or a grade not lower than D3 at a level other than foundation level, in Irish; (2) a grade not lower than B3 at foundation level, or a grade not lower than D3 at a level other than foundation level, in mathematics, and (3) a grade not lower than D3 in at least three other subjects, including English, or (ii) a grade not lower than the merit grade in the leaving certificate applied of the Department of Education and Science, or (iii) grades in at least five subjects, including Irish, mathematics and English in another examination (“the other examination”) of a kind that is, in the opinion of the Minister, of a standard not lower than the standard of either of the examinations referred to in clause (i) of this subparagraph, the grades aforesaid being grades that are, in the opinion of the Minister, equivalent to the grades specified in the said clause (i) of a kind that is in the opinion of the Minister, of a standard not lower than the standard of either of the examinations referred to in clause (i) of this subparagraph, the grades aforesaid being grades that are in the opinion of the Minister, equivalent to the grades specified in the said clause (i), or (iv) a grade in another assessment (“the other assessment”) of a kind that includes Irish, mathematics and English and is, in the opinion of the Minister, of a standard now lower than the standard of the assessment referred to in clause (ii) of this subparagraph, the grade aforesaid being a grade that is, in the opinion of the Minister, equivalent to the grade specified in the said clause (ii) and in clause (iii) of this subparagraph, the reference to the other examination includes a reference to a combination of two or more examinations of the kind referred to in that clause or of such an examination or examinations and either of the examinations referred to in clause (i) of this subparagraph, and in clause (iv) of this subparagraph, the reference to the other assessment includes a reference to a combination of two or more assessments of the kind referred to in that clause or of such an assessment or assessments and either of the examinations referred to in clause (i) of this subparagraph.
