Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion

Mr. Aaron Mullaniff:

I will attempt to answer. It is not our role to analyse capacity planning from the perspective of visiting teachers. I would encourage the opportunity to have a closer working relationship with the Department of Education and, by default, the NCSE, where we would perhaps look at a service capacity review. We know that there are about 15 visiting teachers who work in this country supporting blind and vision impaired children but that number is not enough. Equally, we also know that we do not have a sufficient number of staff working across the children and young persons' team on that but we would welcome an opportunity to consider this matter in the future.

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