Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 February 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

North-South Student Mobility: Discussion

Mr. Bryan O'Mahony:

I was talking to my members and one thing that came out was that they are from the South and went to college in the North. To get access to disability supports and so on in their college, they had to get reassessed under the NHS again.

They were not yet set up with a GP and they had to get onto a waiting list to get a diagnosis. There was a cost to this. There were also the delays in being able to access disability supports in college. They were on the back foot from the get-go.