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:
The lack of expectation or low expectation causes lifelong lasting damage to people. One person I worked with at Inclusion Ireland told me how they were told they would never go to college. These are people who are told all their lives that they will not achieve certain things because of who they are and because of their disability. The cultural change is really important especially in the context in Ireland where we are moving away from special settings. We are trying to make sure that people are living together and working together in the same community. I will leave the committee with that.
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