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
Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Another issue coming out of that topic of conversation in the earlier part of this meeting related to additional time for the leaving certificate. I understood it to mean that students get an extra ten minutes per hour but that that is not the case for all subjects. Moreover, in other jurisdictions, there is an additional, say, 50% of time allocated. I recall sitting my leaving certificate and struggling to get through every question we had to get through in the time allocated, which is obviously part of it, but visually impaired students would need additional time. Is that going to be part of that review or is it a separate matter?
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