Ms Christabelle Feeney:

An episode of RTÉ's "Prime Time" programme about disability aired recently. For anybody who has not seen that, it is an important programme to watch on RTÉ Player. Within that, as Ms McGriele just mentioned, it included a young woman who lost her sight at about ten or 11 years of age. She talked about the State examinations. The leaving certificate examinations only allow an extra ten minutes for each of the examinations. It struck me immediately. How is she meant to reach her full potential in terms of qualifications to get into the type of work that she might dream about getting into? That is as far back as we need to go. We need to think about our young people. It is at that point we are forming as adults and understanding what our abilities are and what obstacles we will face as we move into the workforce later in life.