Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth

Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Donald Ewing:

There are some accommodations available when you sit your driver theory test, which include the questions being read out loud. We advise individuals to contact the test centre and state they need those accommodations. They also provide a specialist reader service if for some reason the audio recording of the questions does not suit their needs. We engaged with it quite a lot in the past five or six years to design the service because it understood it had responsibilities under equality legislation to make these reasonable adjustments. In fairness, the first thing it did was contact us to design it around the needs of the individual rather than the individual forcing their way around the system.

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