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

Emer Currie: I agree. What does Ms Bissett say to people who are hung up on issues such as there being a need for a diagnosis, when we know there is not, or that by giving equity to some students we are taking equity away from other students? What do the witnesses say, concisely, to put those arguments to bed?

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

Emer Currie: Exactly. It should be based on evidence. I wrote to the SEC about it and its response was that it might have to consider withdrawing the additional time that applies to all candidates taking Irish, English, History and Geography and also the removal of the spelling and grammar waiver. Does Ms Bissett feel like she is in a game of chess at the moment?

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

Emer Currie: I thank Ms O'Brien. She is so right. There is a basic misunderstanding of equity that by lifting somebody up, we are tearing somebody else down.

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

Emer Currie: The witnesses are very welcome and I thank them for their opening statements. More work will happen on the pilot. The witnesses also said there should be an announcement about RACE next week. Do we expect to hear information around the pilot next week?

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

Emer Currie: It is for students of 2026.

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

Emer Currie: Did the witnesses hear us discuss how pressing it is that students have clarity on their examinations so that they can prepare adequately?

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

Emer Currie: What does it mean that the process of review will be included in the announcement?

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

Emer Currie: Okay.

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

Emer Currie: Ms Feeney said there is frequently additional time available in the existing system. We know the new pilot is taking place. I ask for information on additional time for children with dyslexia and dyscalculia.

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

Emer Currie: Any student using a scribe, including students who have dyslexia and others with learning difficulties, including physical difficulties, is provided with an additional ten minutes per hour or part of an hour for the time overhead in dictation to the scribe. Students who are using assistive technology and are unable to make use, including adequate use, of that in examination conditions are...

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

Emer Currie: Students with dyscalculia and dyslexia only receive additional time for two specific reasons. Does the SEC not think it is overplaying the additional time that is available to those students, given the fact that there are only two ways in which they can avail of additional time at the moment?

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

Emer Currie: I would not overstate the additional time that is there. That sounds quite limited.

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

Emer Currie: Okay. It seems like we are doing a whole review of the bigger picture, while a specific and important cohort of children needs to be prioritised. Would Ms Feeney not agree that the evidence is there to make a decision for these students?

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

Emer Currie: Yes.

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

Emer Currie: How long would that take? Will it take two to three years?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 134. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider the introduction of a free shingles vaccine for older people, in particular those over 66 years-of-age, in line with best practice in other European countries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52175/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (2 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 166. To ask the Minister for Health the strategies in place to reduce response times for ambulances in the Dublin metropolitan area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52176/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Legislative Measures (2 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary questions No.437 of 13 May 2025, No. 318 of 15 July 2025 and No. 501 of 29 July 2025, if the National Vehicle and Driver File Bill 2025 has now been drafted; if the Bill has been approved by the Oireachtas and targeted for enactment before the end of 2025, which includes a provision to strengthen the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (2 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of learner permit holders, by county, who were disqualified in court in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; the number that surrendered their learner permit to the Road Safety Authority; the number who were prosecuted for failing to surrender their learner permit to the RSA; the number convicted of the offence; the penalties...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (2 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of learner permit holders disqualified in court in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025 whereby the offence could not be matched automatically to the correct learner permit holder; the number of learner permit cases that the RSA attempted to match through a manual search; the number that were successfully matched to a record; and...