Ms Aoife Lyons:

I touched on this when the Deputy was out of the room. We see ourselves on that journey of universal design and that issues like dyslexia would be built into systems. We are not just there yet. We look for medical reports but if somebody says they need wheelchair access, we do not look for a report for that. That is absolutely fine. It is more for things like dyslexia. The reason we look for that information is that we look at everybody on a case by case basis and try to design and develop the accommodation that will best work for that person. It may be a case that somebody with a certain score on the WISC test or something like that may get time and quarter while somebody else may get time and a half. It is about working really hard to give them the accommodation that will help and support them. The information in those reports can also help us to decide on the accommodations for interview, for example. We have a lot of conversations with candidates. As my colleague, Ms McKenna, said, they are the experts in their disability. We see ourselves as the experts in reasonable accommodations but the expert in the disability is the candidate.

To touch on another question, we involve the person with the disability all the time. We are open when looking for those reports. We have reports people got when they were 12 or 13 and they are now 50. That is fine. I know certain organisations will ask people to get a specific report; we do not want to put a burden like that on candidates. We accept any information that will help us to understand the candidate.