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:
It is incredibly time pressing because the rules for 2026 are due to come out in the next couple of weeks. If extra time is not there, there will be some serious stress and emotional distress placed on young people who are a year ahead of Ms. O’Brien or back at junior certificate stage who are going to be incredibly distressed if that is not there. They will have the same experience Ms O’Brien talked about of exam after exam running out of time and going into the next exam feeling on the back foot straight away. It is urgent. It is past urgent; we should have been doing this years ago.