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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I am sorry. It is a feature of this committee that I must sometimes interject to allow the next speaker in. I thank Ms Bissett for her answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I call Senator Joe Conway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: The day you were with your classmates in the audiovisual room, I think you had a graph that showed in other countries when they people have extra time, they do better in exams. Will Ms O'Brien give us a flavour of what that is like? What did you find out when you did that study?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I can well imagine. The first really big exams you had was your junior certificate in summer 2023. It is stressful for everyone but will you share a little about your stress levels when looking at the clock in the examination hall, see time is running out and you are maybe two or three pages away from the end of the test booklet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Did you manage to finish any of your tests in their entirety?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: We all heard you speak in the audiovisual room. You are a very smart young woman and so are your classmates but you were unable to get to the end point of each test paper in your junior certificate in summer 2023.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: That says it all. The time for pushing around the can is well and truly over. People like you who are very smart and should be achieving better in your test scores need extra time so they can achieve all of that. I have a question for Dyslexia Ireland. This is a bit of a left of centre question. I have had people contact me about the driver theory test. They say the can drive fine,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I do not think I am betraying any confidence because he is quite open about it. I was not joking when I said Sive might have a political career because the Minister of State, Deputy Moran, is an outstanding TD for his constituency. He was on "The Late Late Show" in the past. He has given interviews in the Irish Independent, etc. He left school at the age of 13. He did not realise he had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Deputy Cummins. Senator Curley has four minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: We are nearly out of time here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Mr. Ewing. Deputy Currie has four minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Deputy. It does not happen often but we have a bit of leeway. We will go back to the witnesses for any concluding remarks they wish to make. We have a second part of this meeting. If there are any points they did not get to make during the meeting, they can make them now. We will begin with Mr. Ewing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Hear, hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: On behalf of all committee members, I sincerely thank the Donald, Rosie and, in particular, Sive for being here this morning. It takes great fortitude and courage to come in and speak. It is one thing to speak for yourself but she is showing leadership today by speaking for the many students, some of whom are probably watching and some are not. There are teachers watching as well. Ms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I ask anyone attending remotely to mute their device when not contributing so that the meeting does not pick up any background noise or feedback. I also remind those in attendance to make sure their mobile phones are on silent mode or switched off entirely. Members attending remotely are reminded of the constitutional requirement that in order to participate in public meetings, they must be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Very good. I call Ms Feeney to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Ms Feeney and Ms O'Callaghan. We will move on to members' questions in a moment. Members will have four minutes each. The time is constrained so I remind members that in those four minutes they should try to give sufficient time for the answers. They might hear the bell occasionally. I apologise in advance, but we need to move to the next member and so on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I apologise for cutting Ms Feeney off. We will get deeper into this as we go along.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Thank you. I understand Senator Tully is swapping with Deputy Roche.