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. Guillaume Jacquinot:

One of the important things is to track the quality of jobs and not only tracking the employment. If we want to focus on career progression we need to track. I was touching on this idea when I said that telling us 6% are employed does not tell us what people are doing. This would be important.

When it comes to career progression and advancement we need to have the same flexibility for reasonable accommodation as we have with regard to accessing the labour market. Flexible adaptations are very important. If someone is not able to work more than a certain number of hours because something in life has happened, and disabilities are acquired, there should be enough flexibility to enable people not only to retain employment but to progress. Spain has a very good record when it comes to job carving, even for people with very high support needs, to see how they can get a job and progress. In many countries people with high support needs are looked at as never being able to work. Perhaps there is a bit of an answer in something like this.

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