Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We can take up the need to update them with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

The national access target plan is 8%. Is that high enough? According to Ahead figures, it has been higher than that. What could be done to encourage more disabled students to take up positions in third level? I am aware of many students with disabilities, particularly intellectual disabilities, who have gone through mainstream secondary level and sat the leaving certificate and have then gone on to a day service where their needs are not met and they regress rather than progress. We want to see more options for everybody to progress from second level on. This is a broad question. What could be done to encourage more people?