Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion
11:00 am
Ms Derval Healy:
We are hopeful that the book rental scheme, and the purchasing of books being taken away from parents and going direct to schools, may reduce the number of new books that come in. We are looking at different editions of books every two or three years, which means a whole reformat of books. The perfect example of that is the Shakespeare plays and producing maybe five or six versions of the same Shakespeare play because the notes differ. There are some solutions, again, with working groups, that we could look at with the Department to simplify the process and make accessibility be there for students.
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