Erin McGreehan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

No, but it is one place. It is one course. Departments and Enterprise Ireland all spoke about Professor Cooney's course.

When we are pushing for budgetary changes for budget 2024, what are the asks? Is it a change in that partial capacity payment? Is it a movement from social welfare, away from that medical model or benefit model, towards an employment support scheme in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment? Where does it fit better? In my opinion, and it is only a personal opinion, employment is an enterprise, entrepreneurship is an enterprise and there should be a space in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment for a person with disabilities who has the audacity to want to start his or her own business and create employment, pay his or her taxes, and benefit his or her local communities because it is always small businesses that support their local communities. What would be their opinions in relation to that?

I am interested in how Professor Cooney's course can be that beginning point for the LEOs and how that can be the template. He is right that the response from the LEOs is that it is open to everybody, and is not tailor-made. The LEO does not understand. It has not listened to people with disabilities and there is no policy in relation to entrepreneurship among people with disabilities. I wonder how that could be pushed on a national level in the LEOs.