Ms Toni O'Dwyer:

The main improvements to reference in STEM are in the United States and the UK, where there is considerable focus on STEM. The same issues are to be seen throughout the world - not necessarily just in Ireland - but the solutions are much farther ahead in other countries. Our failure is to learn from the improvements they are making. Believe me; they do not hide them. The information is readily available, but our system is slow to move to introduce those changes. An individualised approach is needed to support students who need compensatory access and cannot use vision to access details, such as diagram information, that are not accessible through Braille either. The number of children is not considerable and therefore the approach does not require considerable resources. What it requires is the will to do it.