No. A point of correction-----

Please, Senator Murnane O'Connor-----

No, no, that is totally wrong.

Listen to the Chair, please. Sit down.

That is absolutely, totally wrong.

Please, sit down.

I have every confidence-----

I said there has been confusion. I never said anything about anyone correcting them.

Please sit down.

I have every confidence-----

Can I make the point that when the Leader is responding-----

I have every confidence-----

He was wrong.

Please listen to me for a second. I am the Chair. It is most abnormal and unusual that anyone would come in when the Leader is responding. I allowed Senator O'Donnell on a point of clarification.

I had a point of clarification.

I cannot allow people to hop up and hop down and interrupt the business.

On a point of clarification, he was wrong.

The Senator can clarify tomorrow.

The State Examinations Commission is an independent body which operates and is responsible for the running of our State exams. It appoints examiners to correct junior certificate and leaving certificate papers. It behoves all of us as public representatives to uphold the integrity and not to create fear or scaremonger about the process and outcome of the leaving certificate results. The exam papers have always been and will always be corrected properly because there are checks and balances, conferences, meetings and a way in which we do it. Please let us not cause fear for the young people who have just finished their exams.

I did not say that.

I am not saying the Senator said that but she is inferring that by her commentary. Let us make it quite clear that a rigorous examiner process is gone through. Their work is monitored by examiners who are experienced supervisors and by senior members of the examination team who go through sample papers and check the exam scripts during every week that the exam correction season is on. This is not just people coming into their back gardens on a sunny day, throwing the papers up in the air and ticking the boxes.

No one said that.

I heard what the Senator said.

I said there was confusion.

The confusion-----

Please respect the Chair.

I think the Leader is confused. He is very confused.