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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: The printer is a classic example.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: That is really important. I have just one more question because I know I am over time. Could Ms Walsh elaborate on how the digital papers pilot could be optimised? How can we make the experience work for children with multiple diagnoses, who may need even more support in availing of the option? Are enough resources being put into this area? That is something I could raise with the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Is that being talked about by the Department at all?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: What does Ms Walsh mean by saying they are not allocated enough time? How much time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: I still remember my leaving certificate examinations, so-----
- 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: 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.