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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: That is not very much.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: I did not fully understand the response when Deputy Hourigan asked questions about modified papers. Can Ms Walsh explain it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas le gach duine as teacht os comhair an choiste. I am aware that I have five minutes and five questions to ask so I will try to get through them as fast as I can. They all stem from what we heard in the previous session and the first relates to summer provision. One of the things we heard clearly from our guests during the previous session was that they feel strongly...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: That is brilliant. It is great that something productive might come out of this committee. We will not have an involvement there, but the Department and service providers can deal with each other and we hope that could be achieved. Turning to the issue of modified digital exam papers, there was a strong feeling that some of them have not been modified, or if they have been, it is not to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Had those papers been modified? I understood they had not been.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: I refer to modified digital papers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Specifically on the modified aspect, what work has been done there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: It is my understanding the modified digital exam papers either were not up to scratch or were not available and that the strong recommendation was that that would be worked on. Maybe that is something the Department will follow up on after the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Another issue coming out of that topic of conversation in the earlier part of this meeting related to additional time for the leaving certificate. I understood it to mean that students get an extra ten minutes per hour but that that is not the case for all subjects. Moreover, in other jurisdictions, there is an additional, say, 50% of time allocated. I recall sitting my leaving certificate...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: I understand that review was promised two years ago. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Was it promised two years ago?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Yes, but I am asking about that specific issue given it was raised. Obviously, we can all learn, but if it has been promised for a period, I would imagine it should be actionable as quickly as possible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Could the committee get a written update when that has been reviewed? Could it be looked at for this year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: When does Mr. Kenny expect the review to commence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: It depends on whether we consider autumn to end this month or next month, I suppose. We might get a written review on that. On whether orientation, mobility and life skills should be part of the school curriculum, we heard about how well this works in three counties in Munster, where it is put through the education system, and about the benefit of it. That pilot project started 20 years...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: What does Mr. Doody mean by a legacy issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Is it getting State funding or not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: The three counties in Munster.