Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 September 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Irish Sign Language: Irish Deaf Society

9:00 am

Dr. John Bosco Conama:

I wish to add a comment. The Department of Education and Skills provides a home tuition service for deaf children. Ms Murray is one of the tutors on that programme. However, that scheme is not well advertised. Some parents have found out about it by accident and much later in terms of their experiences with their child. Sometimes it comes about through word-of-mouth. It is not necessarily being promoted as an early service.