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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...

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

Emer Currie: 247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if primary legislation is required to introduce a requirement on learners applying for a renewal of a learner permit after seven years of holding a permit, to begin the learning to drive process from the start; the timeframe to introduce such a provision in law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52836/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (2 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will introduce a mandatory requirement on drivers disqualified in court to present their licence or permit, to the court clerk on disqualification, in order for the unique driver number to be recorded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52837/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (2 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to report on the success rate of the system used for mutual recognition of disqualified drivers between the UK and Ireland; to provide an update on his Department's review of the system used in Ireland; his intention to adopt the UK 'administrative' system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52838/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (2 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications made by the Road Safety Authority in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, to an appropriate judge for the purposes of giving effect to a decision imposing a disqualification made in the UK; the number that resulted in a disqualification here; the number of cases where the disqualification had expired in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pensions (2 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person can expect to receive their pension (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52664/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the home tuition grant for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52665/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Local Community Safety Partnerships (2 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 345. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a list of all the local community safety partnerships set to be established within in the Fingal local authority area in 2025 and 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52666/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (2 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 346. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda attestations to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52667/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: After-School Support Services (2 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 400. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason for the discrepancy in funding available to providers of after-school services for between junior and senior infants and first to sixth class students in the case of a childcare service (details supplied) and that funding for first to sixth class children does not cover operating costs; and if she will make a statement...