Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 November 2025

Committee on Disability Matters

Living Independently in the Community for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Ruairí Ó MurchúRuairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)

As we have already said, work and access and all those other reasonable accommodation schemes are not fit for purpose at this time. You will hear that if you speak off the record to Ministers and officials. We really need to fix that entirely. We are nowhere near dealing with that.

Our perfect aim would be that we have a mainstream that can facilitate if not everybody most of everybody but we are a long way off that. We are only talking about putting therapies for one cohort of people into special schools and we are a long way before we will see that introduced into mainstream. It is about advancing where this needs to go.

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