Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 May 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Ratification of Optional Protocol: Discussion

Mr. Markus Schefer:

The committee has not reviewed any country thus far where it has not found serious deficiencies in the education system. Of course, from the side of the committee, I cannot now go into naming the countries which do best and worst but an aspect that frequently contributes to low unemployment is the transfer from the education system into the labour market. That proves to be very difficult. There was no single exception we have looked at where that was not a main difficulty for persons with disabilities. Therefore, as I said in the opening statement, implementing the CRPD is something which every single member state struggles with and education is one of the areas where the struggle is particularly intense.