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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Mr. Kenny is talking about the number of students, which is fine and great, and hopefully we would accommodate them all. From my side of the desk, I am receiving many complaints – not hundreds. I often hear people saying they have no idea what reasonable accommodation they will be given, that nobody will sit down with them and that nobody will talk to them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: There are students here today. Will Mr. Kenny undertake to take some of their details and forward them to the SEC for reasonable accommodation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: On a happier note maybe, for some of that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: -----I will turn to Mr. Doody. Who will sit on the outcomes working group?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Really? Okay. That is interesting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: That would be very useful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I recognise how difficult it will be to agree what those outcomes will be or what the performance indicators will be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: That will be a huge challenge but it will be very interesting work.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I have two quick follow-up questions. The school in Drumcondra, which I know quite well, was spoken about a little. Rosmini is opening soon. Where does it sit? Will it sit as a standard mainstream school with special-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Is it opening in November?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Are those students who might need, for example, more than an SNA on site? They might need-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: -----some medical care. There was a question on visiting teachers. I want to give Mr. Doody an opportunity to answer that question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: By "associate" Mr. Doody means they are not actively meeting students but they are working at a policy level.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: They work with the visiting teachers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: It is an incredible service. They seem to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Post Covid I can only imagine there was a specific level of pressure on visiting teachers because of the impact of lockdown on all children with disabilities but on visually impaired students particularly.
- Report on Energy Poverty 2024: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Dara Calleary: I thank Deputies Ó Cathasaigh and O'Rourke for their contributions. It is important to reflect on Deputy O'Rourke's comments. The retrofit plan is ambitious. We have a serious ambition here. It is also realistic. I absolutely agree with Deputy Ó Cathasaigh. We are not signing up to 220 years but we have been building capacity. In my opening remarks, I referred to the extra...
- Report on Energy Poverty 2024: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Debate adjourned.