Ms Toni O'Dwyer:

I would like to compliment the Department on that initiative. It is a fabulous initiative to support children with disabilities. Unfortunately, children with visual impairment are disadvantaged in that the competency is not there to support them. If a child needs support in Braille through summer provision, we do not have Braille teachers across the country. We do not have people who can teach orientation and mobility. Finally, for an agency to do it, there is the requirement right now that it needs to be registered with Tusla. We are not registered with Tusla, but we qualify under HSE service level agreements, SLAs. We are similar, but we are excluded because of that one criterion.