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
Mr. Frank Hanlon:
I am delighted to hear that because the summer programme has grown substantially over recent years. As part of that expansion, we are looking at involving third-party options, and perhaps we can do something along the lines of what the previous contributors spoke about. We touched on this briefly in respect of ChildVision some time ago but we will pick up on it. We will announce this, we hope, before the end of the year in order that there will be enough time to prepare for next summer, and it is something on which we would be interested in collaborating. There is difficulty sometimes, given the specialism associated with it, but a lot of the kids are facilitated in the summer programme. St. Joseph's, for example, has run a summer programme, which is good news, but we are definitely open to exploring any other options out there.
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