Mr. Liam Herrick:

I will just add two points to that. Dr. McDonagh mentioned the issue of employers and reasonable accommodation. We made this point to the other committee yesterday, but I will reiterate it to this committee. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission submitted a code of practice to the Minister for children, disability and equality two years ago. It set out how employers can vindicate the right to reasonable accommodation in the workplace. That has still not been approved and introduced by the Government. That is a clear practical step to allow this to be fulfilled.

We also state in our report that discrimination in employment when people are in employment is a key factor. It is very often one of the reasons that people end up leaving employment. We have made recommendations that the Labour Court and the Workplace Relations Commission should effectively be accessible for people with disability. There is also a question of access to justice; people are very often not able to bring their claims.