Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We are coming back to the same point all the time. It needs to be a cross-departmental approach. As Deputy Stanton has pointed out, though, when everybody is responsible sometimes nobody is responsible. Therefore we have to have a lead. We have a lead and because of that we end up saying it is not enough to have one person. We would all have to wonder how we can break that kind of cycle. I see it very particularly in respect of the return to work. In my previous work I encountered people who acquired a disability while they were in employment but maybe could not go back to their own employment. There is confusion about whether it is HR, the line manager, or an outside agency or whoever is there to provide the supports. I wonder if the reasonable accommodation fund is exhausted all of the time.