Martin Ferris (Kerry North-West Limerick, Sinn Fein)
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Question 41: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will take to ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be provided with a reader for their leaving certificate in June 2011. [6299/11]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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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.

A range of accommodations are provided to enable students with special needs to access the Certificate examinations. For example enlarged print, Braille translation, modified questions, use of a scribe, a reader, a personal assistant, a tape recorder or word processor, or exemptions from areas of assessment, may be allowed depending on needs. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.