Members on all sides of the House have been concerned with improving the standard of mathematics in this country. Based on the statements made this morning on "Morning Ireland" by Ms Catherine Lewis of Rathdown School and the Irish Mathematics Teachers Association, yesterday was not a great day for anyone. The House is united on this issue and has assisted the Minister, Deputy Quinn, and the Minister of State, Deputy Sherlock, with suggestions on how to improve standards in this regard. In the higher level mathematics leaving certificate examination that took place yesterday, question No. 8 was not doable. The 36° angle should have been 32.8° while the 124° angle should have been outside and not inside the triangle. This affected question No. 9, thereby demoralising the students, and this was a no-choice examination, in which one could not avoid the problematic question No. 8. Moreover, the Project Maths syllabus, which Senator Quinn has promoted strongly, was examined in 24 schools and I am informed that questions Nos. 5(b) and 5(c) were not on the syllabus. As for the ordinary level leaving certificate exam paper, question No. 6(a) on constructing an axial symmetry was not on the syllabus.

In the junior certificate, "-14" should have read "1-4" . We must get an adequate standard of mathematics teaching. There are unqualified mathematics teachers. We also need such an approach to the printing and proofing of examination papers.

Hear, hear.

I urge the Leader to draw those matters to the attention of the Ministers, Deputy Quinn and Deputy Bruton, and the Minister of State, Deputy Sherlock, because promoting ourselves as a high-technology economy and making those kind of mistakes - to the demoralisation of young people - is damaging to the country. We are all agreed on that. There is expertise in that the Minister himself is an architect and Senator Clune is an engineer. We should not be making such mistakes at the expense of so many young people doing exams.

I also ask the Leader to welcome the G8 to County Fermanagh next week. Councillor Alex Baird is the chairman of Fermanagh District Council. I thank Prime Minister Cameron who has brought this great summit to this country.

Hear, hear.

I note that the library in the summit venue is named the Senator Gordon Wilson Library. I am sure the G8 will be as inspired by Gordon Wilson as we were when he was a Member of this House. I wish the summit every success. Having Gordon Wilson so honoured by the G8 in the choice of venue and the naming of the library after him is a tribute to a great man whom we sorely miss in our deliberations.

As Senator Barrett said, the State Examinations Commission has confirmed there was a mistake in the leaving certificate higher level maths paper 2. Senator Barrett referred to other errors. I understand that people can make mistakes but I was very disappointed with what happened in that regard. We must ensure that greater care is taken in compiling leaving certificate examination papers. I heard of a Wallace & Gromit film called "The Wrong Trousers", but in this case we have the wrong triangle. That is unacceptable in this day and age.

Hear, hear.

We need greater checks and balances. I ask the Minister to set up an internal investigation to report on how those errors occurred in the maths papers, in particular when we are encouraging more students to do maths.

Before I conclude I wish to refer as well to the fact that in the CSPE exam a question referring to the Referendum Commission mistakenly stated the commission presented arguments for and against. I cannot understand how anybody in charge of civics in this country would not be aware of the position. My daughter, who is brilliant, did the exam but she might have thought "Referendum Commission" was the name of a boy band. However, such mistakes should not be made.