Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages
Dail Éireann — 2021-05-19
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Norma Foley (FF), Kerry

Students enjoy the protection that, fundamentally, any decision following the review must be reasonably based on the information available to the review. We must be clear that the objective is to ensure that no canvassing takes place. The staff involved in the accredited grades process use professional judgment. They deserve protection from interference. Their professionalism should be the only objective in the accredited grades process. There must be a mechanism to ensure that happens and is supported. That is currently provided for in the legislation. If anything is done to the detriment of that, action must be taken. That is provided for here. I have every confidence that it will be upheld in the truest and best sense of the law as it should be. It is important for those procedures to be in place.

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Sitting date: 2021-05-19