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

Excellent. If I could ask one question on the reasonable accommodation fund, it is not being used and we are all sitting here today talking about the fact that it is very necessary. We all know that employers will need to be supported and it is not something they are going to be able to manage necessarily on their own. If it is not being used, is it because it is too hard to access the fund? Is there a lack of understanding on the part of employers about what is there? Is it that people do not know they can go and ask? Sometimes if the person themselves looks at their job, and as I said I have encountered this, people go back sometimes to very different work from the work that they had. They go back to more appropriate work that they can do or a work pattern that is more accommodating for them. Where is the blockage on that? If we reorient the fund to include supports for people who are self-employed that is important, but an awful lot of people who are not self-employed are not getting the access or benefit of this. I can see a couple of hands up. I will ask Mr. Stewart first.