Leaving Certificate 2020 Calculated Grades: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2020-10-01
============================================================

Mick Barry (PBP), Cork North-Central

I understand that that is the established practice. I want to be clear that I am not in favour of any student who got a higher grade being downgraded but in previous years there would have been a certain number of students who received a higher grade than they should have got. It is not an exact figure but the Minister might be talking about a ballpark figure of 6,500. The point I am making to her is that there must be students who applied for courses and would have got their courses if that error had not been made, but were squeezed out of getting their courses because of that error. That must surely be the case. Does the Minister agree that it probably is the case that students have been squeezed out of courses they would have wanted as a result of that error?

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2020-10-01/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:48:38+00:00
Sitting date: 2020-10-01