Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth

Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion

2:00 am

Ms Rosie Bissett:

The experience has not been that great to date. Also, the pace of this review is hugely frustrating. Following on from our public petition, which I mentioned, we were before the Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen. That was around May 2024, so over a year ago. At that point the SEC said it would be beginning a review that would take two to three years. The terms of reference were published almost a year later in around May or June 2025. The tender for the initial research piece was only published in mid-August so, the pace of change is of significant concern to us.