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

Shane Curley: No, we have no credibility. We are destroying kids' mental health by putting them through examinations. In the case of Sive, she did not finish one of her junior certificate examinations. I am a teacher who was so handcuffed by the system that I am literally traumatised by what I put kids through as a teacher. The SEC made me do that because teachers teach to examinations, so that kids...

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

Shane Curley: I just want a yes-no answer.

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

Shane Curley: Will Ms Feeney tell me with credibility that 17 years of zero progress on extra time for dyslexia is, as she called it, not inaction?

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

Shane Curley: How much extra time do kids with dyslexia have?

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

Shane Curley: Do all kids with dyslexia now have some extra time in an examination?

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

Shane Curley: So, after 17 years, there is zero progress for every student in this country.

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

Shane Curley: I am not trying to be rude but I only have four minutes. Am I non-factual by saying that all students have not been catered for? Have we seen action for every student since 17 years ago when the first recommendation was made on this?

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

Shane Curley: Can we now say that every single student with dyslexia has extra time in their examination?

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

Shane Curley: Therefore there is not progress for every student.

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

Shane Curley: We heard from Sive. She did not finish one of her examinations.

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

Shane Curley: They are inherently stressful because of the curriculum. I will get to that on another day with the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment. The SEC can only implement an examination for which its sets the curriculum. I understand-----

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

Shane Curley: We have staff in an office who for 17 years have not made sure that every single student with dyslexia or dyscalculia who needs extra time is catered for. This argument that there has not been inaction has zero credibility. The last issue is leaving certificate reform. I agree with almost everything Deputy Cummins said and I am not really looking forward to the reforms when they are...

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

Shane Curley: Does the SEC not draft the specification for the examination and then send it to the NCCA?

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

Shane Curley: Fair enough, I accept that and thanks for being here. I am just really frustrated with the system. I was a teacher for ten years. It is destroying kids' lives. We all have a body of work to do to improve the system. Is that fair enough?

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

Shane Curley: I have no confidence or trust in the dyslexia side. Does the SEC accept that 17 years passed, where in 2009 the recommendation was made and in 2026 we do not have a definite path to every student having extra time in an examination, that they are crying out for? We heard from Sive. Does Ms Feeney accept that there is major inaction somewhere?

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

Shane Curley: I thank Ms Feeney.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2025)

Shane Curley: I acknowledge what has been said. What Senator Andrews is doing is extremely brave. It is not just symbolic. If those on the flotilla only save one life or prevent child having to go through an amputation unanaesthetised, they will have either saved a life or prevented a mental trauma that will never be reversed. I just cannot understand what the IDF is doing. It has shown absolutely no...

Seanad: Global Sumud Flotilla: Statements (2 Oct 2025)

Shane Curley: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as ucht teacht isteach ar gearrfhógra. Táim buíoch de. I commend Senator Ruane on proposing the amendment to the Order of Business today to enable us to have this debate. I am glad we are talking about this. I wish there were more of us in the room on both sides of the House. I am not pointing fingers; this is serious. What Israel did...

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

Shane Curley: Can I ask another question on that? Would it speed things up in some instances if parents outlined that they have the money to buy the technology? Would it completely clear the backlog if those parents volunteered that they just want their child to have the iPad and said “Here is the money just give me the cert”?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2025)

Shane Curley: Ba mhaith liom ceist na slándal fuinnimh a ardú. I wish to raise the issue of energy security and securing the national grid with enough electricity supply. A local solar energy company in Loughrea raised with me the issue of VAT on solar panel batteries. If we take an instance where somebody gets the grant to install their solar panels, there is a once-off opportunity to get the...