Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 May 2024
Committee on Public Petitions
Reasonable Accommodation for Dyslexic Students in State Examinations: Discussion
Ms Andrea Feeney:
The report did not only recommend adding time; it also recommended removing the spelling and grammar waiver and the additional time that is available in respect of four particular subjects. Those recommendations were complex. The report was shared with the Department at that stage but was considered complex because it did not just make a single recommendation about time. Three recommendations in that report related to time. One change was to add or extend the time in one case, and the recommendation could be read in a number of ways because it included the word "continue". We were already providing additional time at that stage and the report included the word "continue". It also recommended removing the spelling and grammar waiver and the additional time in the four subjects.