Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 September 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Increasing Employment Participation for Persons with Disabilities: Disabled Persons' Organisations Network

5:30 pm

Ms Lianne Quigley:

I want to go back to Deputy Coveney's point on quotas for people working in the workplace with disabilities. We talk about supports. Are the supports going to be made available while we are ticking a box to achieve a percentage? A deaf person, for example, arrives and is working in the workplace, but will they be provided with all the supports they need to stay working in the workplace? This is not just for deaf people, but for all people with disabilities. When we talk about quotas it is not enough. We have to look at the supports needed to maintain those quotas as well. Mr. Sherwin may have an answer to Deputy Feighan’s point. I will bring him in about the operation.

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