Garret Ahearn (Fine Gael)
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My next question is for both of the organisations present. There was always a challenge in getting people with disabilities into the workforce. We are by far the lowest in Europe. We are at approximately 30% in respect of visually impaired people, but we are low in every category compared with the European average, which is 50% or so.

From speaking to people in the sector, I know that when we get people into the workforce, one can get them in for an internship for a period of time where it is being subsidised by government or by someone in some way, but once that ends the employment ends. How can we go about improving that, from the witnesses' perspectives?