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

Mr. Andrew Holohan:

I was part of a group. I found out I was having a child so I went for loads of job interviews and stuff like that. Before I did that, I did practice job interviews. The person doing the practice interviews knew my background, that I was homeless and that I had been involved in criminality. That person told me to never say that to an employer so I did not. I went along with how the practice interviews went. I did something like 30 job interviews and did not get one response. I was sick of it because my wife was nearly due. I was then completely honest with an employer about my background and what had happened to me and he hired me. I felt I was discriminated against in the practice interviews because of my past but-----

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