Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 174: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow who has applied for access to a reader for examination as they require this but have been refused; if same will be re-examined and allowed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13502/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations including organising the holding of examinations and determining procedures in places where examinations are conducted including the supervision of examinations. I can inform the Deputy that the Commission operates a scheme of Reasonable Accommodations in the certificate Examinations. Applications for such accommodations are submitted by schools on behalf of their students. I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to the Deputy.