Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide any changes made to any accommodations scheme administered by the State Examinations Commission for students with dyslexia that may result in them being deducted marks for spelling mistakes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1303/14]

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. The State Examinations Commission operates a scheme of Reasonable Accommodations in the Certificate examinations. Applications for such accommodations are submitted by schools on behalf of their students. Full details of the scheme are available for downloading from their website: www.examinations.ie/candidates/reasonableaccommodations.

In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.