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

Photo of Paul KehoePaul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

One thing that popped out to me, when Ms Walsh talked about the State examinations, was about us being in the Dark Ages. I will not ask her to comment on it but I thoroughly agree with her. As a politician, and I have no doubt this includes other Members of Parliament, we have all come across these situations in April or May where people panic when they go to the Department of Education and they come back with a "No" answer. They have to go back and forward and that should not be the case. Officials of the State Examinations Commission and the Department treat visually impaired people shabbily.

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