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 Andrea Feeney:

I did. The difficulty is that if I was asked to give certainty now, there would not be a pilot. The certainty I can provide is that students will have the same range of supports and accommodations that students have had up to now and there will be a pilot that will bring on board some students to provide with additional time. If I was forced into a situation of clarifying at this stage how I would provide certainty for all students, it would be to do nothing. That is not something we in the State Examinations Commission, the Department of Education and Youth or the committee would be on board with.