It is important that we have to go back to the outdated leaving certificate this year. While I accept it is very hard to deliver a fair system when one does not have a consistently applied source to standardise teachers' assessment results, we must learn from this experience and embed within the two years of the senior cycle credible projects in order that continuous assessment can occur within the leaving certificate and we can have a hybrid system in 2023 and beyond. Reform of the leaving certificate started in 2016, but we have yet to see a published roadmap for it. We need to move on because apprenticeships and the CAO are moving on and the leaving certificate cannot be left behind.

I agree with the need for reform of the leaving certificate. It has been reformed incrementally over the years, long before 2016. There are the leaving certificate vocational and applied programmes. The Deputy is right that we need more continuous assessment and more project-based work to be assessed. Covid has taught us that assessment, along with other forms of written exams and so on, is a viable and valid way of doing things. We cannot do it on the fly coming out of Covid, but Covid has taught us it can be done. The Minister will have proposals on reforming the leaving certificate into the future and the opportunity should be grasped once we emerge from Covid. I am 100% on that.