Mr. Ciar?n Delaney:

The National Transport Authority does not have a disabled director even though the former Minister, Shane Ross, said that there was to be one. I was at a meeting with Mr. Ross along with civil servants. I was getting tired and said there was an easy solution to this which is to appoint disabled directors. It took him one second to say it was a good idea and let us do it. He said we had to ask the officials. The sanitised version is that I knew the answer and they knew the answer. Mr. Ross said, in other words, that it can be done. It took six weeks to get it through the process. Every Department should have the lived voice.

I am 60 and Ms Kilcawley is 16. The whole point of the exam is to empower people. I ask the committee to ask the Department of Education what the waiting list for assistive technology is. If the committee is amenable, it should invite Féach Ireland, which is the organisation that represents visually impaired and blind young people who will be dealing with State exams, to look at it. I will be happy to engage with anyone after this meeting. I will now shut up and let others speak because I am very conscious of the time.