Dyslexia Association of Ireland

Politician(s) lobbied: John Kearney (Chief Executive Officer), National Council for Special Education

Intent: Met with the NCSE to share information about the needs of children and young people with dyslexia and dyscalculia. Topics discussed included the need for clarity on admission criteria for special classes and schools with regard to the changes around the Parents Notify and letter of eligibility requirements (i.e. DEY Circular 0039/2025.)

Methods: Meeting

Politician(s) lobbied: Paul Coghlan (Senator), Seanad; Martin Conway (Senator), Seanad; Gerard Craughwell (Senator), Seanad; Mark Daly (Senator), Seanad; Denis Landy (Senator), Seanad; Terry Leyden (Senator), Seanad; Rónán Mullen (Senator), Seanad; Catherine Noone (Senator), Seanad; David Norris (Senator), Seanad; Marie-Louise O'Donnell (Senator), Seanad; Denis O'Donovan (Senator), Seanad; Ned O'Sullivan (Senator), Seanad; Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Senator), Seanad; Brian Ó Domhnaill (Senator), Seanad; Tom Sheahan (Senator), Seanad; Diarmuid Wilson (Senator), Seanad; Catherine Ardagh (Senator), Seanad; Frances Black (Senator), Seanad; Victor Boyhan (Senator), Seanad; Ray Butler (Senator), Seanad; Jerry Buttimer (Senator), Seanad; Maria Byrne (Senator), Seanad; Lorraine Clifford-Lee (Senator), Seanad; Paudie Coffey (Senator), Seanad; Rose Conway-Walsh (Senator), Seanad; Paul Daly (Senator), Seanad; Aidan Davitt (Senator), Seanad; John Dolan (Senator), Seanad; Joan Freeman (Senator), Seanad; Robbie Gallagher (Senator), Seanad; Paul Gavan (Senator), Seanad; Alice-Mary Higgins (Senator), Seanad; Kevin Humphreys (Senator), Seanad; Colette Kelleher (Senator), Seanad; Billy Lawless (Senator), Seanad; Tim Lombard (Senator), Seanad; Padráig Mac Lochlainn (Senator), Seanad; Michael McDowell (Senator), Seanad; Michelle Mulherin (Senator), Seanad; Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Senator), Seanad; Gerald Nash (Senator), Seanad; Pádraig Ó Céidigh (Senator), Seanad; Niall Ó Donnghaile (Senator), Seanad; Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Senator), Seanad; Kieran O'Donnell (Senator), Seanad; John O'Mahony (Senator), Seanad; Joe O'Reilly (Senator), Seanad; Neale Richmond (Senator), Seanad; Lynn Ruane (Senator), Seanad; Keith Swanick (Senator), Seanad; Fintan Warfield (Senator), Seanad; Frank Feighan (Senator), Seanad; Maura Hopkins (Senator), Seanad; Colm Burke (Senator), Seanad; Máire Devine (Senator), Seanad; Ian Marshall (Senator), Seanad; James Reilly (Senator), Seanad; Paddy Burke (Senator), Seanad; Gerry Horkan (Senator), Seanad; Grace O'Sullivan (Senator), Seanad; Anthony Lawlor (Senator), Seanad; Gabrielle McFadden (Senator), Seanad; Pippa Hackett (Senator), Seanad; Seán Kyne (Senator), Seanad; Lynn Boylan (Senator), Seanad; Malcolm Byrne (Senator), Seanad; Lisa Chambers (Senator), Seanad; Michael D'Arcy (Senator), Seanad; Annie Hoey (Senator), Seanad; John McGahon (Senator), Seanad; Eugene Murphy (Senator), Seanad; Pat Casey (Senator), Seanad; Shane Cassells (Senator), Seanad; John Cummins (Senator), Seanad; Pauline O'Reilly (Senator), Seanad; Marie Sherlock (Senator), Seanad; Micheál Carrigy (Senator), Seanad; Ollie Crowe (Senator), Seanad; Sharon Keogan (Senator), Seanad; Elisha McCallion (Senator), Seanad; Mark Wall (Senator), Seanad; Barry Ward (Senator), Seanad; Fiona O'Loughlin (Senator), Seanad; Garrett Ahern (Senator), Seanad; Rebecca Moynihan (Senator), Seanad; Mary Fitzpatrick (Senator), Seanad; Erin McGreehan (Senator), Seanad; Timmy Dooley (Senator), Seanad; Aisling Dolan (Senator), Seanad; Emer Currie (Senator), Seanad; Mary Seery Kearney (Senator), Seanad; Vincent P Martin (Senator), Seanad; Róisín Garvey (Senator), Seanad; Eileen Flynn (Senator), Seanad; Regina Doherty (Senator), Seanad; Sharon Tolan (Senator), Seanad; Niall Blaney (Senator), Seanad; Garret Ahearn (Senator), Seanad; Ivana Bacik (Senator), Seanad; Gerry Adams (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Seán Barrett (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Richard Boyd Barrett (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Tommy Broughan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Richard Bruton (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Joan Burton (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Catherine Byrne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ciaran Cannon (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Joe Carey (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Joan Collins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ruth Coppinger (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Barry Cowen (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Seán Crowe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Clare Daly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jim Daly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Deasy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pearse Doherty (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Regina Doherty (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Stephen Donnelly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paschal Donohoe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Timmy Dooley (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Andrew Doyle (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Bernard Durkan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Dessie Ellis (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Alan Farrell (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Frances Fitzgerald (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael Fitzmaurice (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Peter Fitzpatrick (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Seán Fleming (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Brendan Griffin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Halligan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Simon Harris (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Brendan Howlin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Billy Kelleher (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael Lowry (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mary Lou McDonald (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Helen McEntee (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Finian McGrath (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mary Mitchell O'Connor (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Catherine Murphy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Dara Murphy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Eoghan Murphy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Denis Naughten (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jonathan O'Brien (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Willie O'Dea (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Patrick O'Donovan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Fergus O'Dowd (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jan O'Sullivan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Maureen O'Sullivan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Éamon Ó Cuív (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Seán Ó Fearghaíl (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Aengus Ó Snodaigh (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Shane Ross (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Brendan Ryan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Seán Sherlock (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Brendan Smith (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Brian Stanley (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; David Stanton (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Peadar Tóibín (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Robert Troy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Leo Varadkar (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mick Wallace (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Bobby Aylward (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Colm Brophy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Peter Burke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Damien English (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Charles Flanagan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paul Kehoe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Enda Kenny (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Josepha Madigan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Joe McHugh (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Tom Neville (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Kate O'Connell (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Noel Rock (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Brassil (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Declan Breathnach (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; James Browne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Thomas Byrne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jackie Cahill (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pat Casey (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Shane Cassells (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jack Chambers (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Lisa Chambers (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Curran (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Seán Haughey (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Lahart (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; James Lawless (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Marc MacSharry (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Eugene Murphy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jim O'Callaghan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Fiona O'Loughlin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Frank O'Rourke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Anne Rabbitte (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Eamon Scanlon (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; David Cullinane (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Kathleen Funchion (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Martin Kenny (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Denise Mitchell (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Imelda Munster (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Eoin Ó Broin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Louise O'Reilly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Maurice Quinlivan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Gino Kenny (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Catherine Martin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Catherine Connolly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Kevin 'Boxer' Moran (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Katherine Zappone (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael Noonan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Simon Coveney (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Heather Humphreys (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael Ring (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pat Breen (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Róisín Shorthall (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Séamus Healy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Micheál Martin (Taoiseach), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael Creed (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Tony McLoughlin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael Harty (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael Healy-Rae (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael McGrath (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pat Deering (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Thomas Pringle (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Charlie McConalogue (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John McGuinness (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Paul Phelan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mary Butler (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Seán Kyne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Noel Grealish (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Seán Canney (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael Collins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Aindrias Moynihan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Kevin O'Keeffe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paul Murphy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Eamon Ryan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Niall Collins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Hildegarde Naughton (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Carol Nolan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Bríd Smith (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Dara Calleary (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Danny Healy-Rae (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Willie Penrose (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pat the Cope Gallagher (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Darragh O'Brien (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Martin Ferris (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Maria Bailey (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Margaret Murphy O'Mahony (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael Moynihan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Martin Heydon (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Alan Kelly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mattie McGrath (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael D'Arcy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mick Barry (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Niamh Smyth (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pat Buckley (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mark Ward (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pádraig O'Sullivan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Malcolm Byrne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Joe O'Brien (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Malcolm Noonan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Matt Carthy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pauline Tully (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael McNamara (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Violet Anne Wynne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Cathal Crowe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; James O'Connor (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Thomas Gould (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Colm Burke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Christopher O'Sullivan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Holly Cairns (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Padráig Mac Lochlainn (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Cian O'Callaghan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Chris Andrews (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Neasa Hourigan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Gary Gannon (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Duncan Smith (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Emer Higgins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paul McAuliffe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Neale Richmond (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Patrick Costello (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Francis Noel Duffy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ossian Smyth (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Cormac Devlin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paul Donnelly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Roderic O'Gorman (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mairéad Farrell (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pa Daly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Norma Foley (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Réada Cronin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Patricia Ryan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Cathal Berry (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Kieran O'Donnell (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Richard O'Donoghue (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Sorca Clarke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Joe Flaherty (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ruairí Ó Murchú (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ged Nash (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Rose Conway-Walsh (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Alan Dillon (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Darren O'Rourke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Johnny Guirke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Claire Kerrane (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Marian Harkin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Martin Browne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Matt Shanahan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Marc Ó Cathasaigh (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Johnny Mythen (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Verona Murphy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Brady (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jennifer Whitmore (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Steven Matthews (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Frank Feighan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Brian Leddin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Leo Varadkar (An Tánaiste), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ivana Bacik (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Anne Rabbitte (Minister of State), Department of Health; Anne Rabbitte (Minister of State), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

Intent: To raise awareness of Oireachtas members on a range of issues affecting people with dyslexia in Ireland including the continuing urgent need for extra time for students with dyslexia and other learning difficulties when sitting State Exams (Junior and Leaving Certificate) as part of the accommodations offered within the RACE (Reasonable Accommodations at the Certificate Examinations) scheme as administered by the State Examinations Commission (SEC).

Methods: EmailMeeting

Politician(s) lobbied: Jen Cummins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: To assist the Deputy with key information about dyslexia, and to highlight specific campaigns on key issues that we are currently advocating on including the need for extra time in state exams.

Methods: Meeting

Politician(s) lobbied: Emer Currie (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: To assist Deputy Currie with information about dyslexia, and specific issues and campaigns that we are currently advocating on.

Methods: Meeting

Politician(s) lobbied: Pádraig Rice (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: Meeting with Padraig Rice TD ahead of Dyslexia Awareness Month event in Leinster House in October 2025.

Methods: Virtual Meeting

Politician(s) lobbied: Darren O'Rourke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: To assist the Deputy with information about dyslexia, and specific issues that Dyslexia Ireland are currently advocating on, including the urgent need for extra time with State Examinations.

Methods: Virtual Meeting

Politician(s) lobbied: Andrea Feeney (Chief Executive Officer), The State Examinations Commission

Intent: To discuss issues of importance to children and young people with dyslexia, including the current RACE review and the urgent need for extra time when dyslexic students are sitting their Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate examinations.

Methods: Meeting

Politician(s) lobbied: Pádraig Rice (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: To assist the Deputy with information about dyslexia, and specific issues that we are currently advocating on.

Methods: Virtual Meeting

Politician(s) lobbied: Catherine Callaghan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Grace Boland (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: To assist the Deputies with information about dyslexia, and specific issues that we are currently advocating on.

Methods: Meeting

Politician(s) lobbied: Michael Moynihan (Minister of State), Department of Education; Andrea Feeney (Chief Executive Officer), The State Examinations Commission

Intent: To raise issues of importance to children and young people with dyslexia, including the urgent need for extra time when dyslexic students are sitting their Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate examinations.

Methods: EmailMeeting