WHILE I agree with Sarah Egan (Letters, December 12) that the new Leaving Cert timetable will be an improvement for many students, it is clear that the Minister for Education, Mary Hanafin, “could have done better”.

AS somebody whose illness, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), was adversely affected by an intense series of exams, and who knows the health of other people with ME is also at risk from the exertions involved in sitting the Leaving Cert, I am disappointed with the new timetable.