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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Senator O’Reilly has five minutes. I am going to be very strict because we have gone way over time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Senator O'Loughlin has three minutes. We have gone way over time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Paul Kehoe: The witness will have to be very brief.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Paul Kehoe: One thing that popped out to me, when Ms Walsh talked about the State examinations, was about us being in the Dark Ages. I will not ask her to comment on it but I thoroughly agree with her. As a politician, and I have no doubt this includes other Members of Parliament, we have all come across these situations in April or May where people panic when they go to the Department of Education and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Paul Kehoe: When Ms Walsh spoke, I was not aware she had a son or daughter who was visually impaired. She was speaking at first hand. I know from speaking to parents that they are at their wits' end when it comes to this. They should not be worrying about the exam and about how long more they have. They should be 100% catered for. They have already gone through enough in their six years in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Fortunately or unfortunately, I will be departing this Chair in the next couple of weeks. There will be a whole new committee. I do not know anything but I would encourage the next committee, through the clerk, to have a session specifically on visually impaired people with the State Examinations Commission. The witnesses should come in as they have absolute evidence of how it affects...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Paul Kehoe: All you have to do is look at all the changes. Most of the changes to the State examinations come from legal cases. That is the way it is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Paul Kehoe: It is an absolute shame on the SEC.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I thank all the witnesses for coming in today. It was intriguing to hear the witnesses' statements and replies to members.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Paul Kehoe: From the Department of Education, I welcome Mr. Brendan Doody, principal officer with responsibility for special education policy; Ms Angela Corcoran, principal officer with the special education workforce development unit; Mr. Martin McLoughlin, principal officer with responsibility for special education, forward planning and special schools; Mr. Frank Hanlon, principal officer with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I thank Mr. Doody. I call Senator O'Loughlin of Fianna Fáil.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I ask Mr. Doody to be brief.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I ask Mr. Doody to continue briefly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I reiterate that because it is extraordinary we might be looking to move that funding out of the Department of Education. If it currently is in the Department, that seems an unusual choice because we have heard from the previous speakers that it is about the experience of school and is absolutely about school life. Whether it is a legacy issue or not, we might need to look again at that. ...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I am sorry, but when Mr. Kenny is meeting the needs of one in four students, what he means is one in four students apply for recognition under reasonable accommodation. I am sure many of those students would say they are not reasonably accommodated.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I am just looking for a timeline. I have a very small amount of time. I am just looking for a timeline of the review.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Okay. I understand it is the SEC which has the main role here, but does the Department sit on the review body?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Has Mr. Kenny seen the terms of reference?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Will they be publishing them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Does the Department expect to be a member of that group?