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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Sorca Clarke: I fully agree with Ms O'Rourke on the reasonable accommodations at certificate examinations, RACE. I raised it with the Minister last week. This is a programme designed to help students demonstrate their best ability in an exam. This is a broad question to anybody who wants to answer it. The Irish Sign Language Act 2017 recognised ISL as an individual language in its own right. Has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Sorca Clarke: I than the officials for coming in and taking the time to answer the committee's questions. They will be aware that we had engagement with Holy Family School for the Deaf in the previous session. What is the status of their ask for a new school building which will allow them operate out of a single location as opposed to the four individual locations? Last Thursday, the Minister told me...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Sorca Clarke: Is there a timeline on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Sorca Clarke: To stage one, the tender.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Sorca Clarke: I am sorry; my question was specifically for students who are deaf or hard of hearing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Sorca Clarke: I might reword the question. In the more recent fundamental review, were there any specific recommendations in respect of students who are deaf or hard of hearing? If so, were they fully implemented?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Sorca Clarke: Some students with complex needs will have a different-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Sorca Clarke: I am conscious that I have 12 seconds.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Sorca Clarke: As part of that review, is any area being looked at specifically with regard to students who are deaf or hard of hearing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Sorca Clarke: Has the Department been in direct contact with SEC regarding the review of the RACE scheme and students who are deaf or hard of hearing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Sorca Clarke: That is very much in line with other increases in reasonable accommodation in the past decade.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Sorca Clarke: Regarding the home tuition scheme, in her opening statement, Ms Mannion stated that 52 tutors provide approximately 104 hours per year for families. What is the cost per tutor on an annual basis? What is the annual cost of a visiting teacher?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Sorca Clarke: It is just about those-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Sorca Clarke: I will get the information from the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, for an individual cost per tutor.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Sorca Clarke: There are no additional costs outside the standard teacher cost.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Sorca Clarke: Finally, on that same issue of costing, has the Department run a costing on providing the same level of education and courses that Birmingham does here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Sorca Clarke: What is the individual cost for one teacher attending Birmingham?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Sorca Clarke: That is what I am looking for, that is, the cost of an individual to go to Birmingham.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Sorca Clarke: The level of funding that each course is costing is the question.