Leaving Certificate 2020 Calculated Grades: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2020-10-01
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Mick Barry (PBP), Cork North-Central

I put it to the Minister that it is very possible not for one or two people, or even dozens or scores of people, but potentially for hundreds of people or even more. That is an issue that needs to be debated more but I will park it there for now.
It strikes me that it is a standard testing practice, not something done once in a blue moon or regularly. It is a standard practice whereby a sample set of data is taken and run through the system, and then what is got is tested against the expected results. If that were done in this case, it would be discovered very quickly that there was something wrong. Clearly, that did not happen. My question is related to the individual in the Department of Education who signed off on an arrangement that did not involve sample testing of data, such as that described, and the company. How can that be explained? I would just like a brief comment on that before my final question.

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Sitting date: 2020-10-01