Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 July 2025
Committee on Children and Equality
General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Dr. Emer Begley:
It depends on loads of different things. While reasonable accommodations may be there in principle, they do not allow participation on an equal basis for others and are not always there. Another example would be reasonable accommodations within employment. A lot of the reasonable accommodations relate to assistive technologies. The person has to know what assistive technologies that can support him or her are available. This is changing rapidly. The employer has to be willing to accommodate that and there is a cost.
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