Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Marie SherlockMarie Sherlock (Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----so it is something I will certainly need to look into, but I thank Ms Feeney for that.

I wish to pick up on the conversation earlier about the issue of hidden disability and the stigma and the issue surrounding disclosure or having to notify an employer. Perhaps Ms McDonagh might comment on the conversation about it being much harder to retrofit systems into a particular organisation when we should be mainstreaming accommodations from day one. In the construction world, there is the concept of universal design. How can that be applied to the world of work? What is that? Is that a flexibility within the workplace?

I should clarify that earlier, when I was talking about the work-life balance Bill, what I meant to say is that disabled persons are excluded not from the right to request remote work but from the right to flexible work. Is flexibility the key there or is there something else? Obviously, there are a number of things, but-----

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