It is intended that oral language examinations be conducted over a six-day period commencing on Saturday 1 April and concluding on Thursday 6 April 2023. The examinations will be conducted by visiting SEC appointed examiners, recruited and appointed to schools by the SEC. SEC has informed schools that in the event that it is not possible to facilitate all of the examinations in the 6-day period due to insufficient numbers of examiners, two contingency days have been identified. The contingency days are Wednesday 19 and Thursday 20 April 2023. Decisions on the use of the contingency days will be made by the SEC in conjunction with the SEC appointed examiners. The SEC will need to be satisfied that it is not practicable to hold the examinations without availing of one or both of those contingency days. It will not be up to individual schools to seek to arrange examinations on these days in the first instance. In the event that it is not possible to hold the examinations as scheduled either at Easter or using the contingency days, candidates will be assigned to undertake examinations in the window for the conduct of the Late Orals (mid-late May). Candidates who miss their oral language examination due to illness will be facilitated in mid-late May with a later examination. In the interest of equity and fairness, it will not be possible to make bespoke arrangements for individual candidates, groups of candidates or schools. This includes, but is not limited to, sporting events, competitions, school trips, holidays or type of school.