Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Committee on Disability Matters
Advancing in Work for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Haydn Hammersley:
Yes. Am I shocked about the status or by what we see in Ireland? In a way not, because it has been the case for the past decade so we are relatively used to seeing these statistics from Ireland. What is surprising is that, statistically at least, in many fields Ireland is a bit of a powerhouse in Europe in terms of the economy and average income, for example. It is something that does not seem to be passed on to the disabled community, at least statistically. Maybe this is a bit of a surprise and this is in our advocacy towards the Commission. We always bring up this mismatch between how strong Ireland is, at least on paper, economically and how it is a country that people are flocking to for job opportunities yet there is a significant part of the population that is completely cut out of this. This, perhaps, is what surprises us.
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