State Examinations

405. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Education and Youth when consideration will be given to making reasonable accommodation for students with dyslexia for State exams, such as the Junior and Leaving and Applied Leaving Certificates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32061/25]

406. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Education and Youth when a standard entitlement to additional time for State exams for students formally diagnosed with dyslexia will be introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32062/25]

407. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason Ireland has not aligned with international best practice in the area of providing reasonable accommodations for students with dyslexia during State exams at secondary school level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32063/25]

423. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of students completing their second level education Leaving Certificate examination in Gael Choláistí this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32223/25]

434. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department has plans to provide more clarity on the syllabus provided to English teachers for Junior Cycle exams; if there are plans to remove teachers freedom to choose specific examples of topics to cover, for example a short story; and if she plans to review the marking scheme for this year’s Junior Cycle exam. [3240…

86. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Education and Youth to outline her engagement with stakeholders, including trade unions representing teachers, regarding the proposed reforms for the leaving certificate, as of June 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30862/25]

126. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware of the difficulties being encountered by students with dyslexia sitting State exams (details supplied); the plans her Department has in place to address these issues and to make appropriate accommodations for such students at exam time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30977/25]

1584. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health if further capacity will be created to allow persons (details supplied) to complete their exams; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30326/25]

313. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she intends to review and extend exam accommodations to students with long Covid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27374/25]

345. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide an update on the ongoing review of the reasonable accommodations at the certificate examinations scheme, including terms of reference, methodology and indicative timeline for completion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27680/25]

346. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will increase the threshold for the use of ICT for children with dyslexia in State exams; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27681/25]

347. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide extra allocated time for children with dyslexia in State exams; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27682/25]

211. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason students are not receiving a physical copy of their Leaving Certificate results; the number of students that have not received their Leaving Certificate results in physical form, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26407/25]

415. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the trend in mathematics performance results (details supplied); the actions she will take to address these concerns; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25174/25]

549. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Education and Youth to examine the case of a person (details supplied); if criteria will be confirmed. [23173/25]

182. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will clarify the number of sraith pictiúr the incoming sixth years will have to learn under the new Leaving Certificate reforms. [22403/25]

218. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Education if, as part of the reform of junior certificate grades, she will allow students access to their marked papers and to final percentages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21778/25]

75. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education if she will apply some principle of proportionality so that the current cohort of Leaving Certificate students, to be examined in June 2025, are not unfairly disadvantaged due to the planned reduction in grade inflation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21434/25]

902. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Education if she will consider applying a grade adjustment to previous years’ applicants taking into consideration the grade inflation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19525/25]

915. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education if her Department has assessed the impact to students of this year’s proposed changes in relation to grade inflation in Leaving Certificate 2025; if previous year’s results are to be amended; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19650/25]

928. Deputy Ann Graves asked the Minister for Education her views on whether students sitting this year’s Leaving Certificate will be disadvantaged by the recent proposal by her Department to reduce the grade inflation adjustment from 7.5% to 5.5% for the 2025 cohort (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19775/25]

963. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Education for a timeframe on the State Examinations Commission review of allocated extra time for children with dyslexia; who is part of the review; when public consultation will begin; if a draft policy will be issued before final review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20114/25]

964. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Education if she will commit to a review of the reasonable accommodations at the certificate examinations scheme and to increasing the threshold for the use of ICT for children with dyslexia in State exams, [20115/25]

965. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Education the reason her Department has not implemented the use of extra allocated time for children with dyslexia as set out in the State Examinations Commission review of 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20116/25]

971. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Education when the final decision was made to change this year's Leaving Certificate's grade inflation to 5.5%; the way this decision was communicated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20173/25]