Ms Toni O'Dwyer:

The access issues and barriers that are there in primary and secondary apply across further and higher education and the same ones need to be addressed there. If I was very briefly to say what we need to do, I would say we need to move in regard to supports. Our supports are around building the skills of students with vision impairment as opposed to caring support because they have the ability to perform and we are not allowing them to do so. We sometimes mask this by putting supports around them rather than future-proofing them to have independent lives, which is what we need to focus on.