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

Photo of Cathal CroweCathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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We will get you in in a little while. I am next on the rota of speakers. I welcome all the witnesses today and Sive in particular. As other members have said, this is the Committee on Education and Youth so it is very important to get young people in to hear what they have to say. When you are in fifth year, teachers start encouraging you to go to the local book shop and pick up those red exam books to look at the previous years of leaving certificate papers. Have your teachers in Our Lady's Bower ever given you additional time to complete one of those papers? How have you fared when you have additional time versus when you have the prescribed time?