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. Eddie Hennessy:

I set up my business. I aimed to recover and I got a camera and developed it into a business. It took a long time. I was not aiming to set up a business but when I did, I realised there were many barriers, not in society but the Government's inability to recognise entrepreneurs was incredible. It was broke to the last year.

I had a reduction in my partial capacity benefit without medical evidence. It took me a year to reverse that decision. Instead of recovering and learning the skill of photography to a higher level, I was fighting the Government. I literally paid the Government for my recovery. I had to take a 33% hit on my income so I could start a business, but I was not making any money. I said I would take the hit for the good of my future but that does not work.

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