John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Senator Higgins alluded to the fact that the committee sat jointly a number of months ago with two other committees to look at the difficulties faced by people with a range of disabilities in not just accessing but remaining in the workforce. We considered why people were getting jobs and the whole area of loss of supports and benefits. As Mr. Reid rightly said, just because one gets a job does not mean the disability, whatever it might be, does not remain. We were quite clear that those supports need to be maintained in employment as in unemployment. We made that point very specifically.