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PQ 168

168. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether the State Examinations Commission has a policy, guidance document or framework governing the use of gender-neutral terminology in examination papers; if so will she provide details of same; and whether any external advisors, organisations or stakeholders were consulted regarding the language used in the instance of a recent question in the Leaving Certificate social education paper which referred to a "pregnant person" [47958/26]

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168. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether the State Examinations Commission has a policy, guidance document or framework governing the use of gender-neutral terminology in examination papers; if so will she provide details of same; and whether any external advisors, organisations or stakeholders were consulted regarding the language used in the instance of a recent question in the Leaving Certificate social education paper which referred to a "pregnant person" [47958/26]

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