Blind students waiting years for textbooks

Calum Geary with twin brother Donnacha and their father, Andrew. Mr Geary said a deaf signing child is 10 times less likely to go to third level and four times less likely to be employed.

Blind and visually impaired children in Irish schools are waiting years for accessible books which is having long-term effects on their future careers, an Oireachtas committee has heard.

The committee heard that students who requested accessible versions of junior cycle textbooks did not receive them until they were in Transition Year in some cases when the books were no longer needed.