Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters
United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed)
5:30 pm
Ms Siobhán McKenna:
Yes. We heard quite a bit about people who are in jobs, in our service, and do not anything meaningful because people have decided what they can and cannot do and have just left them. Because they are in permanent jobs, the organisations cannot get rid of them but they are not doing meaningful work. It is not just about encouraging these people into our service, it is about allowing them to use the skills and abilities they have to help us shape services for everybody else. We are going to do more of that and make sure we have our disabled colleagues and candidates in the room when we are talking about processes that affect them.
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