Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 4 July 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion
Mr. Kieran Rogers:
To clarify, from the national recruitment campaign, seven candidates were successful. With regard to the geographical spread of those seven, I cannot give the Deputy exact details about the counties because of the general data protection regulation. It is, however, predominantly focused in the east of the country. We ran two pilot campaigns in the south in the context of ISL specialist classroom support. Unfortunately, there was no successful candidate in either case. We also ran a competition for an ISL adviser, which is the broader role for supporting the whole school community rather than working with an individual child. Again, that proved to be unsuccessful.